Kirti GompaKirti Gompa (Tibetan: ཀི་རྟི་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: ki rti dgon pa), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1472 and located in Ngawa, Sichuan province, in China, but traditionally part of Amdo region. Numerous other associated Kirti monasteries and nunneries are located nearby. As of March 2011, the Kirti Gompa was said to house 2,500 monks.
Dawu County, SichuanTibetan nameTibetanརྟའུ་རྫོངDawu County (Tibetan: རྟའུ་རྫོང་།), also written Tawu County or Daofu County (Chinese: 道孚县), is a county of northwestern Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and as of 2001, had a population of 46,900 residing in an area of 7,546 square kilometres (2,914 sq mi).
Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture30°02′58″N101°57′44″E / 30.0495°N 101.9623°E / 30.0495; 101.9623AbbreviationChineseTibetan nameTibetanདཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་།Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, often shortened to Ganzi Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture in the western arm of Sichuan province, China bordering Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomous Region to the west, and Gansu to the north and northwest.
TibetTibet () is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau. It is the homeland of the Tibetans. Other ethnic groups also reside on the plateau, including Mongols, the Lhoba, Monpa, Qiang, Sherpa, and since the 20th century, Han and Hui peoples. Tibet is the highest region on Earth, with an average elevation of 4,380 m (14,000 ft).Gannan Tibetan Autonomous PrefectureTibetan nameTibetanཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ།Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 甘南藏族自治州; pinyin: Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul, ZWPY: Gainlho Poirig Ranggyong Kü) 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.Phuntsog self-immolation incidentThe Phuntsog self-immolation incident (Chinese: 彭措自焚事件) occurred when a TibetanBuddhist monk by the name of Rigzin Phuntsog immolated himself on March 16, 2011 in Ngawa County, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. This was followed by another self-immolation incident on September 26, 2011. By March 2012, more than thirty other Tibetans had immolated themselves as a protest against Chinese rule of Tibet.
Ngawa CountyNgawa County (Tibetan: རྔ་བ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rnga ba rdzong, ZWPY: Ngawa Zong, Chinese: 阿坝县; pinyin: Ābà Xiàn), or Aba or Ngaba, is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the remote northwestern part of the prefecture, on the border with Qinghai (to the northwest) and Gansu (to the north). The county seat is Ngawa Town.
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous PrefectureHuangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (simplified Chinese: 黄南藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 黃南藏族自治州; pinyin: Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu; Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul) is an autonomous prefecture of eastern Qinghai, northwest China, bordering Gansu to the east.
International Campaign for TibetThe International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is a non-profit advocacy group working to promote democratic freedoms for Tibetans, ensure their human rights, and protect Tibetan culture and the environment. Founded in 1988, ICT is the world's largest Tibet-related NGO, with several thousand members and strong bases of support in North America and Europe. On March 15, 2018, the ICT marked 30 years and received a video message from the Dalai Lama.
Ngawa Town32°54′N101°42′E / 32.900°N 101.700°E / 32.900; 101.700Ngawa or Aba town (Chinese: 阿坝镇; pinyin: Ābà ZhènStandard Tibetan: Ngawa) is the seat of Ngawa (Aba) County, within the Ngawa (Aba) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China. It is located on the Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of 3,200 metres (10,500 ft).
TapeyTapey (Tibetan: བློ་བཟང་བཀྲ་ཤིས།) was a young Tibetan monk from Kirti Monastery. On February 27, 2009, he attempted self-immolation in a public marketplace located in Sichuan to protest oppression by the PRC government in Ngawa, Tibet. Instead of helping him by putting out the fire, Chinese authorities shot him multiple times, and he succumbed to his injuries shortly after, which marked the beginning of a wave of Tibetan self-immolations.
Self-immolationSelf-immolation is the act of setting oneself on fire. It is mostly done for political or religious reasons, often as a form of protest or in acts of martyrdom, and known for its disturbing and violent nature. EtymologyThe English word originally meant (1534) "killing a sacrificial victim; sacrifice" and came to figuratively mean (1690) "destruction, especially by fire".*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.