Zhangmu Port
Zhangmu Port (འགྲམ་འགག་སྒོ།) is a crucial border crossing between China and Nepal, located in Zhangmu Town, Nyalam County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous…
Tradruk Temple
Tradruk Temple (Tibetan: ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: khra-’brug dgon-pa, Lhasa dialect: [ʈʂʰaŋʈʂuk kø̃pa], referred to as Changzhu Monastery in Chinese) in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say…
Butter Sculptures
The renowned butter sculptures (also known as butter flowers), which originated in Tibet but flourished uniquely at Kumbum Monastery (Ta’er Monastery) in Qinghai,…
Barkhor
Barkhor (Wylie: bar-skor, ZYPY: བར་སྐོར་), is the commercial center and busiest street of the old city of Lhasa, Tibet. The Barkhor Ring Road is composed…
Namtso
Namtso or Lake Nam (officially: Namco; Mongolian: Tenger nuur; Chinese: 纳木错; pinyin: Nàmù Cuò; Tibetan: གནམ་མཚོ་, ZYPY: Nam Co; “Heavenly Lake” in European literature: Tengri Nor, 30°42′N 90°33′E) is a mountain lake on the border between Damxung County of Lhasa…
Ani Tsankhung Nunnery
Ani Tsankhung Nunnery (Tibetan: ཨ་ནི་མཚམས་ཁུང, Wylie: A ni mtshams khung Chinese: 阿尼仓空寺; pinyin: Ā ní cāng kōng sì) is a nunnery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in the city of Lhasa,…
Yamdrok Lake
Yamdrok Lake (also known as Yamdrok Yumtso or Yamzho Yumco; Tibetan: ཡར་འབྲོག་གཡུ་མཚོ་, Wylie: yar-‘drog. G’yu-mtsho, ZYPY: Yamzhog Yumco; Chinese: 羊卓雍錯; pinyin: Yángzhuó Yōngcuò, Yángzhuō Yōngcuò) is a freshwater lake in Tibet. It is one of…