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2015 Shoton Festival will be held from August 14th to 20th, it lasts 7 days as per its tradition; In addition to traditinal programs of “Tangkar Unfolding”, “Tibetan Opera” , and “Yogurt”; there will be other programs of Thangka Art Expo, Everest photo exhibition, exhibition of Tibetan cuisine
Dongzhulin Monastery was built in 1667, and at one time housed treasures which rivaled Potala Palace, such as: gilded Maitreya, statue of White Drolma, Buddhas of Three Worlds, the ruler of the hell, Manjusri, 18 Arhats statues and Tangkar scroll paintings depicting Buddhist stories. Unfortunately it was badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution and the current structure was restored in 1987.
Previously, it was named “Chong-Chong-Gang Monastery” that means a monastery by a crane lake. Originally, It was a Kagyu Pa tradition monastery. It converted to Gelu Pa merging with other 7 small monasteries nearby and finally becoming Dongzhulin Monastery in 1667. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were over 700 lamas and 10 Living Buddhas in this monastery.
The Assembly Hall of Dongzhulin Monastery was designed in earth and wooden structure with 4 floors and 82 thick pillars. On the first floor, Tsongkhapa and his two disciples (Damarenqing and Kezhujie) are enshrined.
Some other enshrined Buddhism deities on the same floor are Sakyamuni, Avalokitecvara (Goddess of Mercy), Bhodisattva Manjusri, Bhodisattva Samantabhadra and Drolma.
The chanting hall, Buddhist chapels and chambers for Buddhist images are settled on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Among of those, the most impressive statues are the statue of Qingba Buddha (Maitreya) and the statue of Juewolakang (Sakyamuni).
It also houses a huge Tangkar with 8.5 meters long and 5.2 meters wide, and it is unfolded on the Gedong Festival in the 12th month of Tibetan calendar.
Dongzhulin Monastery sits on the slop of a mountain that overlook the beautiful Jinsha River Gorge (Yangtze). It is not well-known, more popular with the local Tibetans. The Mask Dancing Ceremony attracts thousands of followers each year.
On the east Slop of Nan-Yong-Gan-Ding, Shu-Song village, Deqen County
Full day
3,000 meters
RMB 30 per person
Usually, the first step is to take flights or land transportation to arrive in Shangri La city, the capital town of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. There are about more than 15 buses leave for or passing through Benzilan county everyday. Dongzhulin Monastery is about 23 kilometers away from Benzilan county
Be advised There is no direct public bus to this monastery from Benzilan, so you will have to use local minibus which usuaolly charges RMB 30 per person one way
Address: No. 1, Shen-Ying Road
IATA Code: DIG
Altitude: 3,280 meters above sea level
Contact: +86 887 822 9916
Address: Xiangbala Avenue
Phone: +86 887 822-3501
Altitude: 3,080 meters above sea level
Working hours: 06:00 am – 19:00 pm
Machu county is traditionally regarded as the southeast end of Amdo. it is also thought the first township of Yellow river, the 9th Gesar Horse-racing festival (2015 Machu horse-racing festival) will be held from 13th to 17th;
The horse-racing include Classic & Professional Competition during this 5 days
Classic competition: Local horses from He-chu area only
Professional competition: No horse species restriction
The total prize money of two Classic & Professional competetion is 1.2 million RMB including taxes
2015 Yushu horse racing festival will be held in the grasslad of Yushu county from July 25th to 29th
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Rabgya monastery is also known as “Tashi Kundeling monastery“. It is an important branch of Sera monastery, found in 1769 AD by a Mongol, whom was named Arik Geshe, and he was from Kokonor lake.
In the period from 1952-1958, the monastery occupied an area of 700 acres, including 12 halls, and more than 1,100 dorms for Lama, monk students; and one Palace for Panchen Lama. There were about over 1,300 monks in this monastery, unfortunately it was damaged badly in the 1960s’ of 20th century, after repairing since 1980, it now has recovered, and there are 5 halls, and more than 182 dorms
The building of this monastery have been rebuilt during the late 1990’s of 20th century; but some old religion artworks still remain, including a handfull pillar carpets. The assembly hall has a trilingual inscription above the door, and contains 64 carpeted pillars. The broad cliff behind the monastery is known as Mt. Khyung-Ngon (Blue Garuda). The top of this mountain offers a great view of the Yellow River.
It is situated in the north bank of Yellow River in Rabgya county, facing west to Yellow River, it is about 70 kilometers from the capital town of Xia-Da-Wu of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, it is Gelug pa tradition, as to be a sub-branch of Sera monastery.
Add: La Jia village, Maqin County
Full day
Free of charge
2,600 meters
There is no direct bus to this monastery; there are buses leaving from Xining or Tongde or Guide for Da Wu town that will pass through this monastery, Or by chartered vehicle to get here;
July 3rd, the first Tibetan Folk Museum – “Qun Jue” Museum of ancient weapons opened. The museum is located in Maizugongka county near Lhasa, there 7 exhibiting areas, including pottery, bronzes, ethnic clothing, appliances, life, religious culture, revolutionary relics, weapons and other seven exhibition areas, a total of 1613 collections.
Gongga monastery is located at the west slope of Mt Gongga with altitude of 3030 meters above sea level.
It situates on a small “stage” that overlooking the large glacier that descends off the west side of Mt Gongga which is the highest peak in the eastern Tibet of Kham and Amdo.
It is the sealed shrine of Kagyu sect’s succession living Buddha, who is known as Tulku Rinpoche. The reincarnation was formally started here by Kagyu Pa.
From this origin, systems of reincarnation—including Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama–were adopted by all major sects of Tibetan religion.
This monastery was damaged during the Cultural Revolution in 1960’s of 20th century. It has been rebuilt by local villagers since late 1990’s of 20th century.
Nowadays, this small Kagyu monastery is getting popular for its wonderful location for those, whom make this fairly tough Gonga Mount trek. This monastery is also a base for those whom plan to start a mountain climbing to the peak of Mt Gongga.
Add: On the east slop of Mt Gongga (Minya Gangkar)
Full day
3,750 meters
RMB 20 per person
There is no road to this site, the only transportation tool are motorcycle and small tractor. There are two routes that leads to here
A 5 days trekking starting from Kangding leads to here
One other option is by driving around from the north side of Mt Gongga to reach Liuba county, then switch to local 4 wheel drive vehicle to reach Tsemi La pass, then descending to Tsemi village, from which you will start to hike for about 1.5 -2 hours to reach at Gonga monastery
Be advised : There are three “Tsemi villages” — “Upper Tsemi village”, “Middle Tsemi village”, “Lower Tsemi village”; among of which the “Upper Tsemi village” is the one that closer to this monastery; the other two are near to each other and leads to the east slope of Mt Gonga and heading to Hailuogou Glacier and Luding
Tibet has all kinds of wetland area of 6.529 million hectares; The total wetland area of the total land area ratio (ie wetlands rate) is now 5.31%, ranking second in the country. Up to now, Tibet has implemented 23 various types of wetland protection and restoration projects, and fund 347 million yuan for those projects.
