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Sangri County
桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Sangri is located in Tibet
Sangri
Sangri
Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
Sangri is located in China
Sangri
Sangri
Sangri (China)
Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E / 29.2594; 92.0177
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan (Lhokha)
County seatSangri
Area
 • Total
2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
18,041
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.sangri.gov.cn
Sangri County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese桑日县
Traditional Chinese桑日縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSāngrì Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliezangs ri rdzong
Tibetan PinyinSangri Zong

Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]

It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]

History

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After the democratic reform in 1959, Sangri County was formally established as a part of Shannan Prefecture. Subsequently, Shannan Prefecture was renamed Shannan Region in 1968, and Sangri County was subordinated to Shannan Region.[5] In 2003, the Tibet Autonomous Region was reorganized into Shannan City, and Sangri County has been subordinated to Shannan City ever since.[6]

Administrative divisions

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Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.

NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
Town
Sangri Town桑日镇Sāngrì zhènཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ།zangs ri grong rdal
Townships
Zingqi Township增期乡Zēngqī xiāngརྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་།rdzing phyi shang
Bötö Township白堆乡Báiduī xiāngའབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་།'bod thos shang
Rong Township绒乡Róng xiāngརོང་ཤང་།rong shang

References

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  1. ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
  2. ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  3. ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  4. ^ "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  5. ^ 中国藏学硏究中心; 中国藏学硏究中心 (1992). 西藏山南基巧和乃东琼结社会历史调查资料 (in Chinese). 中国藏学出版社. p. 7. ISBN 978-7-80057-058-2. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  6. ^ 《中国政府机构名录》编辑部 (2004). 中国政府机构名录 (in Chinese). 中央文献出版社. p. 2462. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
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    Sangri County
    桑日县 • ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
    County
    Sangri is located in Tibet
    Sangri
    Sangri
    Location of the seat in the Tibet AR
    Sangri is located in China
    Sangri
    Sangri
    Sangri (China)
    Coordinates (Sangri County government): 29°15′34″N 92°01′04″E / 29.2594°N 92.0177°E / 29.2594; 92.0177
    CountryChina
    Autonomous regionTibet
    Prefecture-level cityShannan (Lhokha)
    County seatSangri
    Area
     • Total
    		2,632.18 km2 (1,016.29 sq mi)
    Population
     (2020)[1]
     • Total
    		18,041
    Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
    Websitewww.sangri.gov.cn
    Sangri County
    Chinese name
    Simplified Chinese桑日县
    Traditional Chinese桑日縣
    Transcriptions
    Standard Mandarin
    Hanyu PinyinSāngrì Xiàn
    Tibetan name
    Tibetanཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།
    Transcriptions
    Wyliezangs ri rdzong
    Tibetan PinyinSangri Zong

    Sangri County (Tibetan: ཟངས་རི་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 桑日县) is a county of Shannan in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[2]

    It is home to Wolkha Cholung Monastery, founded as a hermitage in 1393 by Tsongkhapa.[3][4]

    History

    After the democratic reform in 1959, Sangri County was formally established as a part of Shannan Prefecture. Subsequently, Shannan Prefecture was renamed Shannan Region in 1968, and Sangri County was subordinated to Shannan Region.[5] In 2003, the Tibet Autonomous Region was reorganized into Shannan City, and Sangri County has been subordinated to Shannan City ever since.[6]

    Administrative divisions

    Sangri County contains 1 town and 3 townships.

    NameChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylie
    Town
    Sangri Town桑日镇Sāngrì zhènཟངས་རི་གྲོང་རྡལ།zangs ri grong rdal
    Townships
    Zingqi Township增期乡Zēngqī xiāngརྫིང་ཕྱི་ཤང་།rdzing phyi shang
    Bötö Township白堆乡Báiduī xiāngའབོད་ཐོས་ཤང་།'bod thos shang
    Rong Township绒乡Róng xiāngརོང་ཤང་།rong shang

    References

    1. ^ "山南市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Statistics Bureau of Lhoka. 2021-06-24.
    2. ^ "zangs ri rdzong". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
    3. ^ "'ol dga' chos lung". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
    4. ^ "Wolkha Cholung". The Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia and the Himalayan Region. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
    5. ^ 中国藏学硏究中心; 中国藏学硏究中心 (1992). 西藏山南基巧和乃东琼结社会历史调查资料 (in Chinese). 中国藏学出版社. p. 7. ISBN 978-7-80057-058-2. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
    6. ^ 《中国政府机构名录》编辑部 (2004). 中国政府机构名录 (in Chinese). 中央文献出版社. p. 2462. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
    • Sangri County Annals
    • Olka Choling Monastery
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