Ngamring County (; ) is a county of

Xigazê Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (; Nepali: ''सिगात्से''), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histori ...

in the

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. "Ngamring County, sometimes referred to as the gateway to

Mount Kailash Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; ''Kangrinboqê'' or ''Gang Rinpoche''; Standard Tibetan, Tibetan: གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ; ; sa, कैलास, ), is a mountain in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It h ...

and Far West Tibet, is the barren area which divides the Raga Tsangpo and the

Brahmaputra The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, northeast India, and Bangladesh. It is also known as the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan, the Siang/Dihang River in Arunachali, Luit in Assamese, and Jamuna River in Bangla. It ...

." The office place of the county is located in Kagar (), population 1,700, at an elevation of .

Towns and townships

* Gegang Town (, ) * Sangsang Town (, ) * Yagmo Township (, ) * Dagyu Township (, ) * Qu'og Township (, ) * Kairag Township (, ) * Dobê Township (, ) * Riwoqê Township (, ) *

Xungba Xungba (; ) is a township in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The township falls under the jurisdiction of Ngamring County in Shigatse Prefecture. See also

*List of towns and villages in Tibet Populated places in Shigatse Township-le ...

Township (, ) * Cazê Township (, ) * Amxung Township (, ) * Rusar Township (, ) * Kunglung Township (, ) * Nyigo Township (, ) * Comë Township (, ) * Darog Township (, ) * Goin'gyibug Township (, )

Landmarks and monasteries

The Chung Riwoche Stupa is located on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. "A narrow iron bridge spans the river here, alongside an original iron-chain footbridge attributed to Tangtong Gyelpo," the founder of Tibetan opera, who was born in Ngamring County. "Legend has it that the iron chain bridge over the Xiongqoi River ... was built with funds collected by Tongdong Gyaibo through performances." Another point of interest is the Ralung Chutse hot spring, which has camping and a guest house. Zangzang Lhadrak Cave in Ngamring County was where

Padmasambhava Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from India who may have taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According ...

hid the "Northern Treasures," which consisted of "a number of texts and various sacred objects in a maroon leather casket." These texts and objects were removed in 1366 by Vidyadhara Gödem, and became known as the Dzö Nga (mdzod lnga) or Five Treasuries. The "Northern Treasures" were taught at the Dorje Drak Monastery, and include the Künzang Gongpa Zangtha teachings, a collection of

Dzogchen Dzogchen (, "Great Perfection" or "Great Completion"), also known as ''atiyoga'' ( utmost yoga), is a tradition of teachings in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon aimed at discovering and continuing in the ultimate ground of existence. ...

instructions. Ngamring Monastery or Ngamring Chöde ( Wylie: ''ngam ring chos sde'' ) produced many important scholars.For information about the debate between Bodong Chögle Namgyel (''Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal''; 1376-1451) of the

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school and the

Sakya The ''Sakya'' (, 'pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug. It is one of the Red Hat Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu. Origins Virūpa, 16th century. It depict ...

scholar Khedrub Je Geleg Pelsang (''mkhas grub rje dge legs dpal bzang''; 1358-1438), see: Monika Schrempf (editor):
Soundings in Tibetan medicine
' (Leiden 2007) and Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho (Dalai Lama XIV), Jeffrey Hopkins:
Kālachakra tantra: rite of initiation : for the stage of generation
' (1999). It was founded in 1225 as a Sakya monastery when "the Ngamring ruler Drakpa Dar (Grags pa dar), also known as Yöntsun (Yon btsun), invited the Sakya master Shākya Sengé (Shākya seng ge) to Ngamring and founded the monastery there."Chakzampa Thangtong Gyalpo
''Chakzampa Thangtong Gyalpo: Architect, Philosopher and Iron Chain Bridge Builder''. Manfred Gerner. Translated by Gregor Verhufen. (2007). Center for Bhutan Studies. .

It was later expanded by the governor Tai En Namkha Tenpa (Ta'i dben Nam mkha' brtan pa, b. 1316) with the assistance of his teacher, the Omniscient Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (Dol po pa Shes rab rgyal mtshan, 1292-1361).

The monastery also followed the

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and

Bodongpa The Bodongpa or Bodong tradition, is one of the smaller traditions of Tibetan Buddhism falling outside the classification of the four main schools. History Bodong E Monastery (), located in Yutok (), in modern Tashigang (), Lhatse County, was t ...

traditions. It became a

Gelugpa 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: Transplantati ...

monastery at the time of the

5th Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (; ; 1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet. He is often referred to simply as the Great Fifth, being a key religious and temporal leader ...

. "Tangtong Gyalpo's teacher Ka Ngapa Paljor Sherab (Bka' lnga pa Dpal 'byor shes rab) was the ninth abbot."

Transport

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References

External links

Map of locations in Namling County
China Tibet Information Center {{Towns in Xigazê Counties of Tibet Shigatse