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Tsaparang, the Glossary

Tsaparang was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture (Western Tibet) near the border of Ladakh.^[1]

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Agra

Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow.

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Anagarika Govinda (born Ernst Lothar Hoffmann, 17 May 1898 – 14 January 1985) was the founder of the order of the Arya Maitreya Mandala and an expositor of Tibetan Buddhism, Abhidharma, and Buddhist meditation as well as other aspects of Buddhism.

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António de Andrade

António de Andrade (in Tibetan: ཨང་ཋོ་ནཱི་་དྷུ་་ཨང་དྷུ་ཝ་དྷུ།;1580 – March 19, 1634) was a Jesuit priest and explorer from Portugal.

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Atiśa

Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal. Tsaparang and Atiśa are history of Tibet.

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Bon

Bon or Bön, also known as Yungdrung Bon, is the indigenous Tibetan religion which shares many similarities and influences with Tibetan Buddhism.

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Catholic Church in Tibet

The Catholic Church is a minority religious organization in Tibet, where Tibetan Buddhism is the faith of the majority of people.

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Charles Allen (writer)

Charles Robin Allen (2 January 1940 – 16 August 2020) was a British freelance writer and popular historian from London.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Dzong architecture

Dzong architecture is used for dzongs, a distinctive type of fortified monastery (རྫོང) architecture found mainly in Bhutan and Tibet.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Guge

Guge was an ancient dynastic kingdom in Western Tibet. Tsaparang and Guge are Archaeological sites in Tibet, former countries in Chinese history, history of Tibet and Ngari Prefecture.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Ippolito Desideri

Ippolito Desideri, SJ (21 December 1684 Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany – 14 April 1733 Rome, Papal States) was an Italian Jesuit missionary and traveller and the most famous of the early European missionaries who founded Catholic Church in Tibet.

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Jesuit missions

The phrase Jesuit missions usually refers to a Jesuit missionary enterprise in a particular area, involving a large number of Jesuit priests and brothers, and lasting over a long period of time. Tsaparang and Jesuit missions are Society of Jesus.

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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. Tsaparang and Kyide Nyimagon are history of Tibet.

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Ladakh

Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.

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Lake Manasarovar

Lake Manasarovar (Mānasarōvara), also called Mapam Yumtso locally, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Langdarma

Darma U Dum Tsen, better known as Langdarma ("Mature Bull" or "Darma the Bull") was the 42nd and last king of the Tibetan Empire who in 838 killed his brother, King Ralpachen, then reigned from 841 to 842 CE before he himself was assassinated.

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Maryul

Maryul, also called mar-yul of mnga'-ris, was the western most Tibetan kingdom based in modern-day Ladakh and some parts of Tibet. Tsaparang and Maryul are former countries in Chinese history and history of Tibet.

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Michael Wood (historian)

Michael David Wood, (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster.

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Mount Kailash

Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

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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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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Purang Town

Purang or Burang, known as Puhreng in Tibetan (IPA: puʂeŋ), (Nepali:ताक्लाकोट) is a town which serves as the administrative center of Purang County, Ngari Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China.

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Red Guards

The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.

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Rinchen Zangpo

Lochen Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), also known as Mahaguru, was a principal lotsawa or translator of Sanskrit Buddhist texts into Tibetan during the second diffusion of Buddhism in Tibet, variously called the New Translation School, New Mantra School or New Tantra Tradition School.

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Rudok

Rudok, also spelt Rutok and Rutog, more properly Rudok Dzong, is a town that served as the historical capital of the Rudok area in Western Tibet on the frontier with Ladakh.

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Shangri-La

Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, Uses the spelling 'Kuen-Lun'.

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Shiquanhe

Shiquanhe, known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab or Sênggêzangbo, is the main town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Spiti

Spiti (pronounced as Piti in Bhoti language) is a high-altitude region of the Himalayas, located in the north-eastern part of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Sutlej

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

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Tholing

Tholing (literally "high place"), also called Zanda, is a town and the seat of Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture, in the west of Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. Tsaparang and Tholing are Zanda County.

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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.

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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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Tibetan Empire

The Tibetan Empire was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of imperial expansion under the Yarlung dynasty heralded by its 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century. Tsaparang and Tibetan Empire are former countries in Chinese history and history of Tibet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsaparang

Also known as Tsaparang Dzong.

Tsaparang, the Glossary

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See also

Archaeological sites in Tibet

Bon

Ngari Prefecture

Ruins in Tibet

Zanda County

References