Nyang bran (Tibetan ཉང་བྲན།) is a suburb district and valley located several kilometres north of the city of

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level city, prefecture-level Lhasa (prefecture-level city), Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Regio ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

.http://hw.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa500d_0x0017948e.pdf The valley is noted for its hermitages, belonging to the

Sera Monastery Sera Monastery ( "Wild Roses Monastery"; ) is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located north of Lhasa and about north of the Jokhang. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The origin of its n ...

, one of the three great historical monasteries of Tibet.

Pabonka Hermitage Pabonka Hermitage (Pha bong kha), also written Pawangka, is a historical hermitage, today belonging to Sera Monastery, about 8 kilometres northwest of Lhasa in the Nyang bran Valley on the slopes of Mount Parasol (Dbu gdugs ri) in Tibet. Founde ...

Drakri Hermitage Drakri Hermitage is a historic hermitage in Tibet, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located about northeast of Lhasa, on a mountainside. Structure The hermitage grounds consists of five sections: *Main temple compound, renovated around a court ...

Chupzang Nunnery Chupzang Nunnery ''(Chu bzang dgon)'' is a historical nunnery, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located north of Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet, China. Though the site was established as a hermitage around 1665, it was converted into a ...

and many others are located in the valley which offers scenic views of Lhasa. Mount Parasol lies on its western side on which the Pabonka Hermitage is located. Pabonka Hermitage2

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Valleys of Tibet Populated places in Lhasa Chengguan District, Lhasa Township-level divisions of Tibet Subdistricts of the People's Republic of China {{Lhasa-geo-stub