Liulin () is a town situated adjacent to the major Tibetan
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: Transplantati ...
Jonê Monastery, on the northern bank of the Lu-chu river in
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 P ...
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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 a ...
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Gansu Province, China, at an altitude of about 2,610 m (8,563 ft).
It is fairly large in size at 374 km
2. 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
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 ...
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People's Bank, the Commercial Guesthouse and number of government administrative buildings, including the police station.
[Dorje (2009), p. 812.]
Footnotes
References
*Cabot, Mabel H. (2003). ''Vanished Kingdoms: A Woman Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia, 1921-1925'', pp. 148–157. Aperture Publishers in association with the Peabody Museum, Harvard. .
*Dorje, Gyurme (2009). ''Footprint Tibet Handbook''. Footprint Publications, Bath, England. .
*Osada, Yukiyasu, Gavin Allwright and Atsushi Kanamaru. (2004). ''Mapping the Tibetan World''. Kotan Publishing, Tokyo, Japan. .
External links
* "Tibet Outside the TAR: Chone Dzong." Tibet Environmental Watc
Cities in Gansu
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zh:柳林镇 (卓尼县)