The Dodé Valley or Dog bde is a northern suburb of

Lhasa Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa (city), Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

. A number of historical hermitages belonging to

Sera Monastery Sera Monastery ( "Wild Roses Monastery"; ) is one of the "great three" Gelug gompa, 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 ...

are located here including the Purbuchok Hermitage and

Sera Utsé Hermitage Sera Utsé Hermitage, Sera Utse, Sera Ütse, Sera Tse or Drubkjang Tse is a historical hermitage belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located on the mountain directly behind Sera Monastery itself, which is about north of the Jokhang in Lhasa, Tibe ...

. The hills around the valley are known as the Purbuchok mountains. It is a common location for hiking from Lhasa.Scenery Cultural China
The Liusha River, a seasonal river in the north of Lhasa City, poses a flooding problem to Lhasa City, which is fed by the Nyangrain Valley and the Dodé Valley. In order to control the flooding, the Dodé Valley Small Watershed Comprehensive Management Project passed the review in 2010. Subsequently, the construction was started. There is a mosque in Dodé Valley, called Dodé Mosque, and a Muslim cemetery nearby.

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Populated places in Lhasa Chengguan District, Lhasa Valleys of Tibet {{Lhasa-geo-stub