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Amdo Tsanggar Monastery

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Amdo Tsanggar Monastery is also called Sertsang monastery or Shi Zang monastery. It is located some 12 kilometers east of Heibei county in Amdo. It is one Gelug Pa tradition monastery, was built in the 30th year of Qian long Empire (1765) Qing Dynasty. Founded by the 1st Zhida Repoche of Denpa Gyatso, whom was thought to be the reincarnation of Zangge, the high rank lama of Sera monastery according to the legend.

Due to its location, there is no direct bus to reach this remote located monastery, the closest spot that the public transportation web covers is to arrive at Heibei Township by bus, then switch to local transportation, a very popular minibus to get to this site, which takes about 40-60 minutes after a driving on the 12 kilometers dirt road.

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Amdo Travel

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Amdo Travel
Amdo sketch provide a rough lcoaiton and areas of Amdo the estern Tibet

Amdo, outside the TAR, extends a large areas of over Qinghai, parts of Gansu, and a small part of northern Sichuan of Kham. The trips to this enormous area can be vary, from Advernture to sightseeing; from tough trekking to leisure visit, you’re always able to find something to do;

Starting from Xining – the capital of Amdo approximately 20km west is the monastic townof Kumbum, another monastic town of Amdo is further south, called: Labrang; in between this two monastice towns is the cultural centre of Repkong, home to a distinctly vibrant tradition of Tibetan painting and sculpture. West from Repkong is the sacred Mt Amnye Machen, which is the highest spot in Amdo, and the focus that tibetan coming from all corners of Amdo as far as the west tibet for pilgrimage. continuing southwest to another culture site of Yushu. The 2nd large mountain of Amdo is called Mt. Nenpo Yutse located in the east corner of Amdo, next to Aba of Sichuan province;

Since Amdo is open to foreign visitor as Kham it is, there is NO Tibet travel permit required, therefore you are almost able to travel “freely”, although for those, whom would enjoy an easy and assisting tour, contacting one tour operator, of which you trust, would be a good idea to travel through this enormous area ensuring you travel safe, easy, fun…

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Visit Tibet only?

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As you may be aware that the tours to Visit Tibet have received many errors on obtaining tibet-travel-permit. There is no telling that if this situation may last or not in the rest of this year. Does that mean you have to cancel your trip to Visit Tibet at all? Not necessarily! it is important to know that Tibetan cultural Area consists 3 major parts, of course the central tibet TAR is the main part, however, the other almost more than 50% large of the whole TCA areas are in current Qinghai province (Amdo), the West of Sichuan Province (Kham). Although Amdo and Kham are not in central Tibet, but not think it is any “less-Tbet”. those are still preserve some orginal tradition of Tibetan culture, such as “Jue-nang” of Gelukpa, “Black hat” of Orignal tibetan religion that sourced from Guge – the lost kingdom of west Tibet.

in the continuse days, Tibetan Trekking will publish more about the eastern tibet of Kham and Amdo to assist you choose other travel destinations, you are welcome to pay attention to our blog