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Karola Glacier is located in Lang kartse county right next to the main road. Approximately 30 minutes drive from Yamdrok Lake. Karola Glacier has a total of almost 10 square kilometers, with length of 5 kilometers or slightly less. The glacier which can be seen is at around 5200 meters high.
Densatil Monastery is situated on Mt. Drakri Karpo in Sangri county on the North bank of Brahmaputra River. It is a major branch of Kagyu pa monastery, the Phaktru Kagyu of Densa.
Densatil Monastery is surrounded by wild roses, rhododendrons and other flowering bushes. Its juniper trees are famous.
Its meditation caves are embed with cliff in west. The most sacred relic is a tooth that is claimed to belong to Buddha. Its assembly hall was built into the cliff by nearly a thousand ascetics in the late 12th century.
It was founded in 1158 by Phagmo Trupa Dorje Gyelpo, and was the one of the most influential in Tibet. Between 1349 AD and 1453 AD, Phagmo Trupa family ruled Tibet from their castle close to Tsetang, and so it acquired a great wealth and religious artifacts that to make it one of the richest monasteries in Tibet. Nowadays there is nothing left except the broken red walls and a newly rebuilt chapels.
The rebuilding of this monastery is processed slowly.
Jiang Xiang – Ri Gang village
Full day
4,400 meter
Free of charge
Starting from Tsetang (Shannan), approximately 7 km to arrive at Tsetang Bridge, where you need to across the bridge onto road S302, turn right for about 21 km to arrive at Jiang village, where it leads the way into the valley entrance. From which, a 3 – 4 hours steep climb to the monastery. This is the old way that has been used ever since the monastery was built.
Nowadays, there is one new jeep-able road has been built, on which you are able to reach the monastery closely, still you will need to walk for about 100 meter to enter the chapels. To get on this jeep-able road, you will continue drive about 3-4 kilometers eastward from Jiang village, where you will see a large vegetable planting base. A dirt road is at its east end, which leads up to Densatil monastery;
Address: Jia Zu Lin Town, Gongga Xian
Contact: +86 891 6216465 / 6827727
Altitude: 3,600 meters
IATA Code: LXA
Address: No.12, Anhui Road
Contact: +86 893 7820159
Altitude: 3,550 meters
Working hours: 08:00 am – 20:00 pm
Densatil Monastery is one Phaktru Kagyu tradition monastery. Its altitude is about 4500 meters above sea level, some 35km east from Tsetang county. The location that this monastery is situated has a flat valley, the stream does not low straight to the bottom of the valley, but to flow slowly around the valley which even make this small area much more moister than Tsetang and Rangri county, even grows a small area of forests which Tibetan pheasant，Blue Sheep live in;
Wind Horse Flag, also known as Prayer flags or Ma Ni flag. Buddhist scriptures is printed on those small flags. Tibetan people believe that it chants when it flies in the wind. Thus, it becomes the tie between Buddha and Tibetan
The 5 colors have its own meaning:
Meditation is one important process at the learning of Buddhism, in most cases that meditation caves in the hidden mountains, valleys…, are commonly being seen, however, in Yarchen Gar monastery, which is severely lack of lodgings facilities as well as food, clinic…etc, electricity supply is limited only from 19:00 pm to 22:00 pm, local monks and nuns have made their own way to continue their learning by making one special “Meditation Shack”
Yarchen Gar Monastery is also known as Yaqing Temple (Ya Qing Si in Chinese), located in an isolated valley with altitude of 3,900 meters above sea level, in which the river Dzin-Chu flow through.
Yarchen Gar Monastery was founded by The abbot Achuk Rinpoche in 1985, and with lineage of the Nyingma Pa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Yarchen Gar monastery becomes more popular in Pelyul County (Baiyu in Chinese), Kanze (or Garze) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Si-Chuan province.
Currently, houses more than 10,000 Sangha, which is considered to be the largest concentration of nuns and monks in the Tibetan plateau after Larung Gar monastery. Most of the Sanghas are nuns. Among of those, about 7,000 nuns live in self constructed shacks on a 25 hectare flood plain near a river, and another 3000 around monks live on East side of the river in their own shanty town.
This monastery is almost at the center between Kanze county or Pelyul County, slightly closer to Kanze; Approximately 850 km (about 3 days) drive from Chengdu which has direct international flight to Europe and North America.
A-Cha village, Pelyul County
Full day
3,950 meters
Free of charge
There are 2 monastery run guesthouse near the meditation area by the river; In addition, there are another 9 small guesthouses being run by local villagers; conditions of those guesthouse is quite basic;
Room rates is usually from 30 per bed per night to 200-300 per room per night
Yarchen Gar Monastery is seated on the grassland of A-cha village in Pelyul County. It is about 7 kilometers to the road intersection which leads 130 kilometers to Pelyul in the northwest, and 95 kilometers northeast to Garze (Kanze). There is no public transportation to this site.
The only possible way to get here is to rent local vehicle, and to get here;
The rental for a minibus (7 seats) usually costs RMB 400.00 – 500.00 per trip
Address: Laima village
IATA Code: GZG
Altitude: 4,061 meters
Address: No, 164, Chuan-Zang Road
Phone: +86 836 752-2353
Altitude: 3,780 meters
Zurmang monastery is also Surmang monastery. It is located in a vast alpine nomadic and farming region of Mao-zhuang village, some 220km southwest from Yushu county. It is the seat of the Trungpa tülkus, also known as the Surmang Kagyu, is a sub-sect of Karma Kagyu, it even includes a unique synthesis of Nyingma teachings. Surmang also refers to a complex of nine or ten Kagyu monasteries in that area, those of which were lead by the Trungpa tülkus and the Gharwang tulkus.
Surmang Namgyal Tse
Surmang Dutsi Til
For more information about Zurmang or Surmang monastery, please click here
A new round-trip train between Lhasa and Xining will be started from June 25th according to Qinghai – Tibet Railway Department.
From June 25th, the train from Xining to Lhasa will depart at 20:15 pm with train schedule Z 6811; On the next day of June 26th, Lhasa to Xining train will depart at 16:15 pm with train schedule Z 6812. This train runs 22 hours on each one-way trip
