Xaitongmoin County or Zhetongmön (Tibetan: བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 谢通门县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[3]
Xaitongmoin County
谢通门县 • བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་། Zhetongmön | |
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Coordinates (Xaitongmoin government): 29°25′30″N 88°15′22″E / 29.425°N 88.256°E | |
Country | China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
County seat | Chabkha (Thongmon) |
Area | |
• Total | 13,964.95 km2 (5,391.90 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 45,573 |
• Density | 3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Xaitongmoin County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 谢通门县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 謝通門縣 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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History
editGanden Lhading, which became a branch of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, was founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1650.[4] Renga Chode, a Shangpa Kagyu Monastery, was also founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1600.[5]
Tashi Gepel was a minor 14th century Kagyu nunnery.[6]
Takmo Lingka, a Sakya monastery, was founded here in 1436.[7]
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.[8]
Gonga Choding, a Nyingma monastery, was founded in 1500, and converted to Gelug in 1650.[9]
A Gelug hermitage, Ngulchu Chodzong, was known for its printery.[10][11]
The county was home to the 16th century main estate of the Thon Pa family.[12]
Administration divisions
editXaitongmoin County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.
Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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Town | ||||||
Chabkha Town (Thongmon) |
卡嘎镇 | Kǎgā zhèn | ཆབ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chab kha grong rdal[13] | ||
Townships | ||||||
Dagmoxar Township | 达木夏乡 | Dámùxià xiāng | སྟག་མོ་ཤར་ཤང་། | stag mo shar shang | ||
Capu Township | 查布乡 | Chábù xiāng | ཚ་ཕུ་ཤང་། | tsha phu shang[14] | ||
Chuzhig Township | 春哲乡 | Chūnzhé xiāng | ཕྲུ་སྒྲིག་ཤང་། | phru sgrig shang | ||
Zêxong Township | 则许乡 | Zéxǔ xiāng | རྩེ་གཤོངས་ཤང་། | rtse gshongs shang | ||
Nyangra Township | 娘热乡 | Niángrè xiāng | ཉང་ར་ཤང་། | nyang ra shang[15] | ||
Tsozhi Township | 措布西乡 | Cuòbùxī xiāng | ཚོ་བཞི་ཤང་། | tsho bzhi shang[16] | ||
Nartang Township | 纳当乡 | Nàdāng xiāng | སྣར་ཐང་ཤང་། | snar thang shang | ||
Qingtü Township | 青都乡 | Qīngdū xiāng | བྱིན་མཐུ་ཤང་། | byin mthu shang | ||
Qêqung Township | 切琼乡 | Qiēqióng xiāng | བྱེ་ཆུང་ཤང་། | bye chung shang | ||
Mübaqêqên Township | 美巴切勤乡 | Měibāqiēqín xiāng | མུས་པ་བྱེས་ཆེན་ཤང་། | mus pa byes chen shang | ||
Lêba Township | 列巴乡 | Lièbā xiāng | སླེ་པ་ཤང་། | sle pa shang | ||
Tarding Township | 塔定乡 | Tǎdìng xiāng | དར་སྡིངས་ཤང་། | dar sdings shang | ||
Rungma Township | 荣玛乡 | Róngmǎ xiāng | རུང་མ་ཤང་། | rung ma shang | ||
Tongmoin Township | 通门乡 | Tōngmén xiāng | མཐོང་སྨོན་ཤང་། | mthong smon shang | ||
Danagpu Township | 达那普乡 | Dánàpǔ xiāng | རྟ་ནག་ཕུ་ཤང་། | rta nag phu shang | ||
Danagda Township | 达那塔乡 | Dánàtǎ xiāng | རྟ་ནག་མདའ་ཤང་། | rta nag mda' shang | ||
Namoqê Township | 南木切乡 | Nánmùqiē xiāng | ན་མོ་ཆེ་ཤང་། | na mo che shang[17] | ||
Ringqênzê Township | 仁钦则乡 | Rénqīnzé xiāng | རིན་ཆེན་རྩེ་ཤང་། | rin chen rtse shang[18] |
Other settlement
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