Sangri County
Sangri County
桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་། | |
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.png) 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 / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Shannan |
| Seat | Sangri |
| Population (1999) | |
| • Total | 15,470 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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]
It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[2][3]
References
- ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "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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