Gyirong County

Coordinates: 28°51′16″N 85°17′48″E / 28.85444°N 85.29667°E / 28.85444; 85.29667
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Kyirong County
吉隆县 • སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་།
Gyirong, Jilong
China Standard)
Websitewww.jilong.gov.cn
Gyirong County
Chinese name
Tibetan
སྐྱིད་གྲོང་རྫོང་།

Kyirong

Zongga
(Gungthang). Its name in Tibetan, Dzongka, means "mud walls".

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Kyirong, Dinggyê, Nyalam, and Tingri).[5]

In 1945,

Atisha visited sKyi-grong. sKyid-grong was one of the favorite meditation places of the Tibetan Yogin Mi-la ras-pa (Milarepa
).

The local Kyirong language has been researched thoroughly and folk literature of this region was collected and published during the 1980s.

Special places

Of outstanding importance are the Byams-sprin lha-khang temple, which was built in the 7th century A. D., and the ´Phags-pa lha-khang temple. The ´Phags-pa lha-khang formerly contained one of the holiest Avalokiteshvara statues of Tibet, the statue of the Ārya Va-ti bzang-po. This statue was brought to India in 1959 and is now kept in

Dharamsala
.

Of some importance is the bKra-shis bdam-gtan gling monastery, founded by yongs-´dzin Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan (1713–1793), who was one of the teachers of the 8th Dalai Lama.

Lake Paiku
is in this county. This is a 27 km (17 mi) long, slightly salty lake surrounded by snowy peaks 5,700 to 6,000 m (18,700 to 19,700 ft) high.

Administration divisions

Gyirong County is divided into 2 towns and 4 townships.

Name Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
 Wylie
Towns
Dzongka Town
(Zongga) 		宗嘎镇 Zōnggā zhèn རྫོང་དགའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། rdzong dga' grong rdal
Kyirong Town
(Gyirong) 		吉隆镇 Jílóng zhèn སྐྱིད་གྲོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། skyid grong grong rdal
Townships
Drakna Township 差那乡 Chànà xiāng བྲག་སྣ་ཤང་། brag sna shang
Trepa Township 折巴乡 Zhébā xiāng ཀྲེ་པ་ཤང་། kre pa shang
Gungtang Township 贡当乡 Gòngdāng xiāng གུང་ཐང་ཤང་། gung thang shang
Sale Township 萨勒乡 Sàlè xiāng ས་ལེ་ཤང་། sa le shang

Transportation

Up to 1960, one of the main trade routes between Nepal and Tibet passed through this region. Easily accessible from Nepal, it was used several times as an entrance gate for military actions from the site of Nepal against Tibet. In 2017, Chinese soldiers began building a new road on the Tibetan side of the border, and intend to continue construction into Nepal via

Rasuwa pending approval from Kathmandu.[6]

A possibility of a transborder railway link along a similar route (Gyirong to Kathmandu via Rasuwa) is considered as well.[7]

Maps

  • Map including part of Kyirong County (AMS, 1955)
    Map including part of Kyirong County (AMS, 1955)
  • Map including "Gyirong (Zongga)" (DMA, 1985)
    Map including "Gyirong (Zongga)" (
    DMA
    , 1985)

References

  1. ^ "日喀则市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Xigazê. 2021-07-20.
  2. ^ Dorje 2004, p. 327.
  3. ^ "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Xigazê Prefecture-Level City". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
  4. ISBN 978-3-031-09165-0
    . Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  5. ^ Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006
  6. ^ Lhuboom; Richard Finney (September 8, 2017). "China Builds Road to Nepal Border, Sets Up Flag". Translated by Damdul, Dorjee. Radio Free Asia. The group, which appeared on Sept. 1 at Nepal's border with Kyirong county in the Tibet Autonomous Region, distributed food and clothing to the Nepalese, promising to help them with the roadwork and other construction projects in Nepal if permission can be obtained from government authorities in Kathmandu, a resident of the area told RFA's Tibetan Service.
  7. ^ "The Uneasy Future of the Nepal-China Railway". 2019-06-20.

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