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    Tsaparang (Tibetan: རྩ་བྲང, Wylie: rtsa-brang) was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River...
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    tributaries. The ruins of the former capital of the Guge kingdom are located at Tsaparang in the Sutlej valley, not far from Mount Kailash and 1,200 miles (1,900 km)...
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    suggested that the legendary Shangri-La might be the abandoned city of Tsaparang, and that its two great temples were once home to the kings of Guge in...
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    year 1100 CE. Tholing, at 12,400 feet (3,800 m), the last town before Tsaparang in the kingdom of Guge was then its capital, (163 miles from Darchen)...
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    Queen of Guge, Andrade and Marques established a permanent mission at Tsaparang, in the Garuda Valley of western Tibet's Ngari region. On Andrade's advice...
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    the conquests of Kingdom of Ngaris after a brief siege of Guge castle (Tsaparang) in 1619. Kaul, H. N. (1998). Rediscovery of Ladakh. ISBN 9788173870866...
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    monastery, and Tsaparang, a rocky range with forts, played an important role the history of Tibetan Buddhism in west Tibet. Tholing and Tsaparang were the capital...
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    Langqên Zangbo 朗钦藏布 The Langqên Tsangpo (Sutlej River) seen from Tsaparang, Ngari, Tibet Native name གླང་ཆེན་གཙང་པོ (Standard Tibetan) Location Country...
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    the 9th and 17th centuries, as seen in the murals of Alchi Monastery or Tsaparang. A small hill state situated alongside the banks of the river Ravi, known...
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    sovereign of the Western Tibetan kingdom of Guge, in the capital city of Tsaparang, Andrade left after less than a month to obtain formal permission for...
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    Tashigön Zanskar Successor Detsukgön Born Khri-skyid-lding Lhasa Died c. 930 Tsaparang Consort 'K'or-skyon bo སྐྱིད་ཨིདེ་ཉི་མ་མགོན Father Depal Khortsen...
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    the 9th and 17th centuries, as seen in the murals of Alchi Monastery or Tsaparang: a number of Kashimiri painters were employed by Akbar and some influence...
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    to the southeast. Zanda county is divided into 1 town and 4 townships: Tsaparang Chepzi "阿里地区第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Administrative Commission of...
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    "Sha Wujing" (Battle) 3:19 13. "Terracotta Army" (The End) 2:42 14. "Tsaparang" (Nether) 3:13 15. "Kunlun Mountains" (Overworld) 2:37 16. "Mount Huaguo"...
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  • Name Capital State type Existed Flag Guge Tsaparang Kingdom 910–1630 Khasa Kingdom Sinja Valley Kingdom 11th–14th century Maryul Shey Kingdom 930–1842...
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    (PDF), retrieved 2020-08-23 IJmkje, Repko (2019). The 'White Temple' at Tsaparang. Liden University. "Buddhist Artists Restore Historic Tibetan Murals in...
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  • Pao-Sohmen, illustrated by Hector McDonnell) A Journey to Tsaparang (A Journey to Tsaparang (Gschwendtner Blätter, 1990) Fools Rush in: A Call to Christian...
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    Govinda's book The Way of the White Clouds. While on the expedition to Tsaparang and Tholing in Western Tibet in 1948–49, sponsored by the Illustrated...
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  • priests were imprisoned in 1630 or they were attacked before they reached Tsaparang. Between 1850 and 1880, eleven fathers of the Paris Foreign Mission Society...
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  • persecution in Tibet, and the mission was eventually expelled. In 1630, the Tsaparang Jesuit mission in the Guge Kingdom (presently the Gantok district of West...
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    a Jesuit outpost at Shigatse. In 1635, a six-missionary expedition to Tsaparang, capital of Guge, was led by Nuño Coresma [es], a Spanish Jesuit. In 1661...
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    Gyungcang Jaggang Langmar Minsar Rayü Risong Rutog Shiquanhe Tholing Tsaparang Wüjang Zoco Geography Bangda Lake Bangong Co Dawa Lake Guozha Lake Longmu...
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    official delegation from Bushahr should be sent tri-annually to the towns of Tsaparang, Purang, Dawa, Ruthog and Gartok in western Tibet. For the small Himalayan...
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    of the White Clouds. Li Gotami and Govinda set out on an expedition to Tsaparang in western Tibet in July 1948, arriving in the ancient city in September...
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  • King Songtsen Gampo. Trathang Monastery Lhokha Tsandan Monastery Nagchu Tsaparang Monastery & Palace Complex Western Tibet Tsethang Monastery Lhokha Tsö...
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    (1611–1773) Fortaleza do Monte in Macau (1616–1626) Jesuit establishment in Tsaparang, Tibet (1624–28) Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Hangzhou (1627–1730...
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    António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet, arriving at Tsaparang. September 4 – The Parlement of Paris registers a decree forbidding the...
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  • (1580–1634) and a few others established a small mission and church in Tsaparang (1626), in the kingdom of Guge (Western Tibet) in the 17th century. When...
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    António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet, arriving at Tsaparang. September 4 – The Parlement of Paris registers a decree forbidding the...
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  • de Andrada and Manuel Marquez had pushed their explorations as far as Tsaparang on the northern Setledj. Emperor Leopold I requested that Grueber return...
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