Sangri County

Sangri County, (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།, Wylie: zangs ri rdzong, ZYPY: Sangri Zong ; Chinese: 桑日县; pinyin: Sāngrì Xiàn) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region.[1]

Sangri County

桑日县 ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Sangri County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Sangri
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan
SeatSangri
Population
 (1999)
  Total15,470
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[2][3]

References

  1. "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  2. "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  3. "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.


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