Xaitongmoin County

Xaitongmoin County or Zhetongmön (Tibetan: བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།, Wylie: bzhad mthong smon rdzong, ZYPY: Xaitongmoin Zong ;,[1] simplified Chinese: 谢通门县; traditional Chinese: 謝通門縣; pinyin: Xiètōngmén Xiàn) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Xaitongmoin County

谢通门县 • བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Xaitongmoin County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Xaitongmoin
Location in Tibet
Coordinates (Xaitongmoin government): 29°25′30″N 88°15′22″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
SeatThongmon
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

History

Ganden Lhading, which became a branch of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, was founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1650.[2] Renga Chode, a Shangpa Kagyu Monastery, was also founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1600.[3]

Tashi Gepel was a minor 14th century Kagyu nunnery.[4]

Takmo Lingka, a Sakya monastery, was founded here in 1436.[5]

Dratsang Monastery (Zhe Dratsang, chazang si), founded in the 15th century, was a Nyingma or Sakya monastery. It also became a Gelug monastery in the 17th century.[6]

Gonga Choding, a Nyingma monastery, was founded in 1500, and converted to Gelug in 1650.[7]

A Gelug hermitage, Ngulchu Chodzong, was known for its printery.[8][9]

The county was home to the 16th century main estate of the Thon Pa family.[10]

Town and townships
  • Chabkha Town (ཆབ་ཁ་, 卡嘎镇) [11]
  • Tongmoin Township (མཐོང་སྨོན་, 通门乡)
  • Rungma Township (རུང་མ་, 荣玛乡)
  • Tarding Township (དར་སྡིངས་, 塔丁乡)
  • Danagpu Township (རྟ་ནག་ཕུ་, 达那普乡)
  • Namoqê Township (ན་མོ་ཆེ་, 南木切乡) [12]
  • Ringqênzê Township (རིན་ཆེན་རྩེ་, 仁钦则乡) [13]
  • Dagmoxar Township (སྟག་མོ་ཤར་, 达木夏乡)
  • Mübaqêqên Township (མུས་པ་བྱེས་ཆེན་, 美巴切钦乡)
  • Qingtü Township (བྱིན་མཐུ་, 青都乡)
  • Qêqung Township (བྱེ་ཆུང་, 切琼乡)
  • Nartang Township (སྣར་ཐང་, 纳当乡)
  • Tsozhi Township (ཚོ་བཞི་, 措布西乡) [14]
  • Nyangra Township (ཉང་ར་, 娘热乡) [15]
  • Zêxong Township (རྩེ་གཤོངས་, 则许乡)
  • Chuzhig Township (ཕྲུ་སྒྲིག་, 春哲乡)
  • Capu Township (ཚ་ཕུ་, 查布乡) [16]
  • Danagda Township (རྟ་ནག་མདའ་, 达那答乡)
  • Lêba Township (སླེ་པ་, 列巴乡)

Other settlement

References
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  2. "dga' ldan lha lding dgon". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
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  8. "dngul chu ri khrod". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
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  18. "Bon". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  19. Lhagyal, Dondrup; Sharyul, Phuntso Tsering; Thar, Tsering; Ramble, Charles; Kind, Marietta (2010). "Bonpo monasteries and temples in Central Tibet: (3) Ri rgyal Monastery". In Karmay, Samten G.; Nagano, Yasuhiko (eds.). A Survey of Bonpo Monasteries. Retrieved 2019-05-02 – via The Tibetan and Himalayan Library.


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