Liulin () is a town situated adjacent to the major Tibetan
Geluk
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The Gelug (, also Geluk; 'virtuous')Kay, David N. (20 ...
Jonê Monastery
Chone Monastery (Tibetan: Wylie: ; Chinese: Jonê; Pinyin: Zhuōní), also Chone Gonchen Ganden Shedrubling, or Choni Monastery was originally a Sakya monastery. It is situated adjacent to Liulin, Jonê County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefect ...
, on the northern bank of the Lu-chu river in
Jonê County
Jonê County (also ''Cone'', ''Chone'', ''Choni''; ; local pronunciation: /tɕɔLn zh, s=卓尼县, p=Zhuōní Xiàn) is a County (People's Republic of China), county in the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, China. Its post ...
,
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, c=甘南藏族自治州, p=Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; ) is an autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu Province, China, bordering Linxia to the north, Dingxi to the northeast, Longnan to the east ...
,
Gansu
Gansu is a provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibetan Plateau, Ti ...
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 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 Chinese Communist Party. In 19 ...
, the
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)