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Liulin, Gansu
Liulin () is a town situated adjacent to the major Tibetan Geluk Jonê Monastery, on the northern bank of the Lu-chu river in Jonê County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ... Province, China, at an altitude of about 2,610 m (8,563 ft). It is fairly large in size at 374 km2. and is the administrative centre for Jonê County and the population, nowadays, is predominantly Chinese. In 1923, however, the town had: "approximately four hundred Tibetan families and had changed very little since its founding six centuries before." Today on main street can be found the Chone Printing Press, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the Xinhua Bookstore, the People's Bank, the Commercial Guesthouse and number of government adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geluk
240px, The 14th Dalai Lama (center), the most influential figure of the contemporary Gelug tradition, at the 2003 Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (, also Geluk; "virtuous")Kay, David N. (2007). ''Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain: Transplantation, Development and Adaptation,'' p. 39. Routledge. is the newest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It was founded by Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), a Tibetan philosopher, tantric yogi and lama and further expanded and developed by his disciples (such as Khedrup Je, Gyaltsap Je and Gendün Drubpa). The Gelug school is alternatively known as New Kadam (''bKa’-gdams gsar-pa''), since it sees itself as a continuation of the Kadam tradition of Atisha (c. 11th century). Furthermore, it is also called the Ganden school, after the first monastery established by Tsongkhapa. The Ganden Tripa ("Ganden Throne Holder") is the official head of the school, though its most influential figure is the Dalai Lama ("Ocean Teacher"). All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonê Monastery
Chone Monastery (Tibetan: Wylie: ; Chinese: Jonê; Pinyin: Zhuōní), also Chone Gonchen Ganden Shedrubling, or Choni Monastery was originally a Sakya monastery. It is situated adjacent to Liulin, Jonê County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China, at an altitude of about 2,610 m (8,563 ft). History :"There are traditions of Tibetan soldiers left behind fter the late 10th centuryat several border outposts, such as Chone, where they established viable settlements, and of the remaining Tibetan conscript troops, called the Wun Mo, carving out considerable territory for themselves until they were perhaps absorbed into that amalgam of people of Tibetan stock, which came to form the Hsi Hsia Kingdom (982–1224)." Chone Monastery was founded in 1269 by Drogon Ghogyel Phakpa (1235–1280) and his Mongol patron, Kublai Khan or (Qubilai Qan), in 1269 CE as a Sakya monastery. Chone Monastery was part of a separate kingdom formed, according to legend, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonê County
Jonê County (also ''Cone'', ''Chone'', ''Choni''; ; local pronunciation: /tɕɔLn ) is an administrative district in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. It is one of 58 counties of Gansu. It is part of the Gannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747600. Its area is , and its population is over 100,000 people. It is administered from Liulin.Dorje (2009), p. 812. Description The county covers both banks of the middle section of the Lu-chu. The country town and adjacent Jonê Monastery are on the north bank. The side valleys on the southern side used to be branches of the ancient kingdom of Jonê. Historical Tibetan Yang Surname Zhouni Tusi Among Tibetan at Amdo, Jonê exist The Zhouni Tusi (), ruled by the Tibetan Ga clan or Mandarin Chinese Yang () clan, was a Tusi chiefdom kingdom called Zhouni Kingdom, Choni Kingdom, or Jonê Kingdom ruled by the Gatsang (dga' tshang) family at Tibet. In 1404, whereupon they informed the Ming Emperor Yongle of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Gānnán Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (; ) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east and Aba (Sichuan province) to the south . It includes Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery, Luqu, Maqu and other mostly Tibetan towns and villages. Gannan has an area of and its capital is Hezuo city (Zoi). In the first year of the proclamation of Gannan Autonomous District, the district-seat was at the Labrang Town of Sangqu. Population According to the 2010 census, Gannan has 689,132 inhabitantsCensus 2012 http://www.geohive.com/cntry/cn-62.aspx (population density: 17.14 inhabitants per km2). Ethnic groups in Gannan, 2000 census Transport In the prefecture is high-way G213. In 2013, the Gannan Xiahe Airport was opened. Subdivisions 1 county level city, 7 counties. Climate Gannan, as illustrated by this chart for Xiahe, has an alpine subarctic climate (Köppen Köppen is a German sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia ( Govi-Altai Province), Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west, Sichuan to the south and Shaanxi to the east. The Yellow River passes through the southern part of the province. Part of Gansu's territory is located in the Gobi Desert. The Qilian mountains are located in the south of the Province. Gansu has a population of 26 million, ranking 22nd in China. Its population is mostly Han, along with Hui, Dongxiang and Tibetan minorities. The most common language is Mandarin. Gansu is among the poorest administrative divisions in China, ranking 31st, last place, in GDP per capita as of 2019. The State of Qin originated in what is now southeastern Gansu and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinhua Bookstore
Xinhua Bookstore () is the largest and only country-wide bookstore chain brand in China. History Xinhua Bookstore (in ) was originally established as Guanghua Bookstore (in ) in 1937 in Yan'an under the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. In 1942, Guanghua Bookstore changed its name to Xinhua Bookstore. The four Chinese letter "Xin-hua Shu-dian" logo was made in brush writing in 1948 by Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1951, during the First All-China Publishing Administration Conference, it was decided to divide the vertically integrated operation into the People's Publishing House, Xinhua Publishing Plant, and the Xinhua Bookstore. On the upper floor of the store, there was a “no foreigners” floor, which sold a large number of various dictionaries and dictionaries that could be copied without permission from Japan, Europe, and North America, despite the state-owned bookstore. In 2003, all Xinhua Bookstores in Beijing was reorganized, coming under the (in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Bank Of China
The People's Bank of China (officially PBC or informally PBOC; ) is the central bank of the People's Republic of China, responsible for carrying out monetary policy and regulation of financial institutions in mainland China, as determined by the People's Bank Law and the Commercial Bank Law. It is a cabinet-level executive department of the State Council. History The bank was established on December 1, 1948, based on the consolidation of the Huabei Bank, the Beihai Bank and the Xibei Farmer Bank. The headquarters was first located in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and then moved to Beijing in 1949. Between 1950 and 1978 the PBC was the only bank in the People's Republic of China and was responsible for both central banking and commercial banking operations. All other banks within Mainland China such as the Bank of China were either organized as divisions of the PBC or were non-deposit taking agencies. From 1952 to 1955 government shares were added to private banks to make state-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In Gansu
All provincial-level divisions of China are divided into prefectural-level divisions (second-level): prefectural-level cities, prefectures, autonomous prefectures and leagues. There are 333 prefecture level divisions in China as of January 2019. Number of prefectures in each province ; Note: * () not shown in the list below * [] special divisions List ; Note: * Municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, & Tianjin) are not included but their internal divisions are similar as those of prefectures; * Sub-prefecture-level cities are excluded; * Sub-provincial cities are included, but other types of sub-provincial divisions are not; * * Indicates capital of province. * Bold Sub-provincial city or above. Dissolved prefectures Anhui Chahar (1949-1952) Fujian Hebei Heilongjiang Inner Mongolia Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin Liaodong (1949-1954) Liaoning Rehe (1949-1955) Shandong Shanxi Songjiang (1949-1954) Suiyuan (1949-1954) Zhejiang See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amdo
Amdo ( am˥˥.to˥˥ ) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being U-Tsang in the west and Kham in the east. Ngari (including former Guge kingdom) in the north-west was incorporated into Ü-Tsang. Amdo is also the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama. Amdo encompasses a large area from the Machu (Yellow River) to the Drichu (Yangtze). Amdo is mostly coterminous with China's present-day Qinghai province, but also includes small portions of Sichuan and Gansu provinces. Historically, culturally, and ethnically a part of Tibet, Amdo was from the mid-18th century and after administered by a series of local Tibetan rulers. The Dalai Lamas have not directly governed the area since that time. From 1917 to 1928, much of Amdo was occupied intermittently by the Hui Muslim warlords of the Ma clique. In 1928, the Ma Clique joined the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), and during the period from 1928 to 1949, much of Amdo was gradually assimilated into the Qingh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
