Nangqên County

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Nangqên County
囊谦县 · ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།
County
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Location of Nangqên County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Nangqên County (red) within Yushu Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Coordinates: 32°12′11″N 96°28′52″E / 32.203°N 96.481°E / 32.203; 96.481Coordinates: 32°12′11″N 96°28′52″E / 32.203°N 96.481°E / 32.203; 96.481
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceQinghai
Autonomous prefectureYushu
Area
 • Total12,741 km2 (4,919 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)
 • Total101,126[1]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
815200

Nangqên County, or Nangchen (Tibetan: ནང་ཆེན་རྫོང་།, Wylie: nang chen rdzong, ZYPY: Nangqên Zong) or Nangqian County (simplified Chinese: 囊谦县; traditional Chinese: 囊謙縣; pinyin: Nángqiān Xiàn), is a county of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is the southernmost county-level division of Qinghai province, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. It was one of the five kingdoms of the historical region of Kham.[citation needed]

The county seat is Xangda (shor mda’ / pinyin: Xiāngdá Zhèn 香达镇), built in a side valley and on the right bank of the Dza Chu (upper reaches of the Mekong). In 2000, the county's population amounted to 57,387 people, inhabiting a surface of 11,539 km2 (4,455 sq mi).

History[]

Tana Monastery (Jang Tana)

The county's name is derived from the former king (nang chen rgyal po) and kingdom of Nangchen, a tribal confederation that emerged as a unified Buddhist kingdom in the 13th century.[2] The present-day's county comprises the core area of the old kingdom of Nangchen.

Memories of the kingdom of Nangchen play a role in local politics, and among Tibetan refugees who came to India from the area. Scholar Maria Turek reported that in 2015 she heard about “a man who went to various Tibetan communities in India, introducing himself as ‘the king of Nangchen’ not without some success, even though he had no credentials to prove his claim.”[3]

A Yelpa Kagyu monastery, Tana Monastery (Jang Tana), was founded by Yelpa Yeshe Tsek in 1068. It is considered a branch monastery of Tsurpu.[4][5][6][7]

Transportation[]

References[]

  1. ^ "China : Population - ceicdata.com". ceicdata. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  2. ^ Maria Turek, “Return of the Good King: Kingship and Identity among Yushu Tibetans since 1951,” in Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, ed. by Stéphane Gros, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 453-488.
  3. ^ Maria Turek, “Return of the Good King: Kingship and Identity among Yushu Tibetans since 1951,” in Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, ed. by Stéphane Gros, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019, 453-488 (482).
  4. ^ "Jang Tana". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  5. ^ "Tana Sengge Nam Dzong" - the Monastery of Ling, in: Andreas Gruschke, The Cultural Monuments of Tibet’s Outer Provinces: Kham vol. 2 - The Qinghai Part of Kham (Yushu Autonomous Prefecture), Bangkok 2004, pp.110-115.
  6. ^ Tanma Jamyang Tsultrim: "Cultural Relics of the Tana Monastery in Yushu and Gesar", in: Tibet Studies, 1991, No.1, S. 184-190.
  7. ^ Tana monastery, (towards) Ji'nyinsib, Qinghai, CN. Mapping Buddhist Monasteries, accesssed August 5, 2017.

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