Kongpo
Kongpo (Tibetan: ཀོང་པོ་, Wylie: kong po ) is a region in Gongbo'gyamda County, Nyingchi Prefecture. It is situated on the Nyang River, a northern tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.
Kongpo Drula Gonpa is the oldest and largest monastery in region. Kongpo was an area of southeastern Tibet in the premodern period. Tsagong was one of the holy places of Kongpo and still is. Thang Tong Gyalpo, a famous architect and yogi, founded Manmogang Monastery, where the original Samding Dorje Phagmo died. Nearby are the mines from which Thang Tong Gyalpo obtained the iron for some of his bridges.[1]
Old Tsari is now part of the modern county of Lhuntse in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region and including parts of neighboring areas of India, and New Tsari is located farther east.[2]
Notable people
- Sonam Dolma Brauen (born 1953), Tibetan-Swiss Contemporary painter and sculptor
Sources
- ↑ Diemberger, Hildegard (2007). When a woman becomes a religious dynasty : the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet. New York [u.a.]: Columbia Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14320-2.
- ↑ Diemberger, page 51
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Coordinates: 29°53′23″N 93°14′39″E / 29.8897°N 93.2442°E