Dzongka, the Glossary
Dzongka or Zongga is a town and the administrative headquarters of Gyirong County in the southwestern Tibet region of China bordering Nepal.[1]
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35 relations: Army Map Service, Autonomous regions of China, Ü-Tsang, Śāntarakṣita, Chagatai Khanate, Counties of China, Depal Khortsen, Ganden Phodrang, Gyirong County, Kathmandu Valley, Khasa Kingdom, Kublai Khan, Kyide Nyimagon, Kyirong Town, List of populated places in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Milarepa, National Bureau of Statistics of China, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nepal, Ngari Prefecture, Padmasambhava, Prefecture-level city, River source, Sakya Monastery, Shigatse, Sino-Nepalese War, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet under Yuan rule, Towns of China, Townships of China, Trishuli River, Upper Mustang, Yuan dynasty, Zhangzhung, 5th Dalai Lama.
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Army Map Service
The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
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Autonomous regions of China
The autonomous regions are one of four types of province-level divisions of China.
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Ü-Tsang
Ü-Tsang (དབུས་གཙང་། Wylie; dbus gtsang) is one of the three Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the north-east, and Kham in the east.
Śāntarakṣita
(Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित;, 725–788),stanford.edu: whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, particularly for the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Chagatai Khanate
The Chagatai Khanate, or Chagatai Ulus was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors.
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Counties of China
Counties (hp) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in provinces and autonomous regions and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banners and city districts.
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Depal Khortsen
Depal Khortsen (c. 870 – 900) was a ruler of Tibet according to the Ladakhi Chronicles.
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Ganden Phodrang
The Ganden Phodrang or Ganden Podrang was the Tibetan system of government established by the 5th Dalai Lama in 1642, when the Oirat lord Güshi Khan who founded the Khoshut Khanate conferred all spiritual and political power in Tibet to him in a ceremony in Shigatse.
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Gyirong County
Kyirong or Gyirong County, also known by its Chinese name Jilong, is a county of the Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
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Kathmandu Valley
The Kathmandu Valley (काठमाडौं उपत्यका), also known as the Nepal Valley or Nepa Valley (नेपाः उपत्यका, Nepal Bhasa: 𑐣𑐾𑐥𑐵𑑅𑐐𑐵𑑅, नेपाः गाः), National Capital Area, is a bowl-shaped valley located in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal.
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Khasa Kingdom
Khasa-Malla kingdom (Khasa Malla Rājya), popularly known as Khasa Kingdom (Khasa Rājya) and Yatse in Tibetan, was a medieval kingdom established around the 11th century in regions that are presently in far-western Nepal and parts of Uttarakhand state in India.
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder and first emperor of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China.
Kyide Nyimagon
Kyide Nyimagon, whose original name was Khri-skyid-lding, was a member of the Yarlung dynasty of Tibet and a descendant of emperor Langdarma.
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Kyirong Town
Kyirong or Gyirong, Jilong in Chinese and Kerung in Nepalese (केरुङ), is a town situated in the southern part of Gyirong County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Dzongka and Kyirong Town are Gyirong County.
List of populated places in the Tibet Autonomous Region
This is an alphabetical list of all populated places, including cities, towns and villages, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of western China.
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Milarepa
Jetsun Milarepa (1028/40–1111/23) was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple.
National Bureau of Statistics of China
The National Bureau of Statistics is a deputy-ministerial level agency directly under the State Council of China.
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Ngari Prefecture
Ngari Prefecture or Ali Prefecture is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum.
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Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries)... According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.
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River source
The headwater of a river or stream is the farthest point on each of its tributaries upstream from its mouth/estuary into a lake/sea or its confluence with another river.
Sakya Monastery
Sakya Monastery, also known as Pel Sakya ("White Earth" or "Pale Earth"), is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa'gya County, about west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Shigatse
Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê, or Rikaze, is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
Sino-Nepalese War
The Sino-Nepalese War (नेपाल-चीन युद्ध), also known as the Sino-Gorkha War and in Chinese as the campaign of Gorkha, was a war fought between the Qing dynasty of China and the Kingdom of Nepal in the late 18th century following an invasion of Tibet by the Nepalese Gorkhas.
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Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an autonomous region of China and is part of Southwestern China.
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Tibet under Yuan rule
Tibet under Yuan rule refers to the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty's rule over Tibet from approximately 1270 to 1354.
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Towns of China
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships.
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Townships of China
Townships, formally township-level divisions, are the basic level (fourth-level administrative units) of political divisions in the People's Republic of China.
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Trishuli River
The Trishuli River (त्रिशूली नदी) is one of the major tributaries of the Narayani River basin in central Nepal.
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Upper Mustang
Upper Mustang (formerly Kingdom of Lo) is an upper part (Northern area) of Mustang District, which is located in Nepal.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Zhangzhung
Zhangzhung or Shangshung was an ancient kingdom in western and northwestern Tibet, pre-dating Tibetan Buddhism.
5th Dalai Lama
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso (1617–1682) was the 5th Dalai Lama and the first Dalai Lama to wield effective temporal and spiritual power over all Tibet.
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See also
Gyirong County
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongka
Also known as Gungthang, Gyirong (village), Zongga.