Babang (

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: ''Palpung''; ) is a rural

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Dêgê County Dêgê County (; ) is a county in southern China, which was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms - the Kingdom of Derge - but is now administered as a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in far northwestern Sichu ...

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. The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu () river in the western reaches of the Chola Mountains on the east side of the

Jinsha River The Jinsha River (, Tibetan: Dri Chu, འབྲི་ཆུ) is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtze River. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan in western China. The river passes through Tiger L ...

. The township contains significant remaining tracts of the Hengduan conifer forests. Palpung2014

Babang is known for the 18th-century

Palpung Monastery Palpung Monastery () is the name of the congregation of monasteries and centers of the Tai Situpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the name of the Tai Situ's monastic seat in Babang, Kham (modern Sichuan). Palpung mean ...

located on a ridge approximately above the centre of the township.

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{{authority control Populated places in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Township-level divisions of Sichuan

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