Xaitongmoin County
County in Tibet, China
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Xaitongmoin County or Zhetongmön (Tibetan: བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།, Chinese: 谢通门县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.[3]
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Xaitongmoin County
谢通门县 • བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་། Zhetongmön | |
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Location of Xaitongmoin County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet AR | |
  Xaitongmoin Location in Tibet  Xaitongmoin Xaitongmoin (China) | |
| Coordinates (Xaitongmoin government): 29°25′30″N 88°15′22″E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Xigazê |
| County seat | Chabkha (Thongmon) |
| Area | |
• Total | 13,964.95 km2 (5,391.90 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 45,573 |
| • Density | 3.2634/km2 (8.4521/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 谢通门县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 謝通門縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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History
Ganden Lhading, which became a branch of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, was founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1650.[4] Renga Chode, a Shangpa Kagyu Monastery, was also founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1600.[5]
Tashi Gepel was a minor 14th century Kagyu nunnery.[6]
Takmo Lingka, a Sakya monastery, was founded here in 1436.[7]
Dratsang Monastery (Zhe Dratsang, chazang si), founded in the 15th century, was a Nyingma or Sakya monastery. It also became a Gelug monastery in the 17th century.[8]
Gonga Choding, a Nyingma monastery, was founded in 1500, and converted to Gelug in 1650.[9]
A Gelug hermitage, Ngulchu Chodzong, was known for its printery.[10][11]
The county was home to the 16th century main estate of the Thon Pa family.[12]
Administration divisions
Xaitongmoin County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Chabkha Town (Thongmon) |
卡嘎镇 | Kǎgā zhèn | ཆབ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chab kha grong rdal[13] | ||
| Townships | ||||||
| Dagmoxar Township | 达木夏乡 | Dámùxià xiāng | སྟག་མོ་ཤར་ཤང་། | stag mo shar shang | ||
| Capu Township | 查布乡 | Chábù xiāng | ཚ་ཕུ་ཤང་། | tsha phu shang[14] | ||
| Chuzhig Township | 春哲乡 | Chūnzhé xiāng | ཕྲུ་སྒྲིག་ཤང་། | phru sgrig shang | ||
| Zêxong Township | 则许乡 | Zéxǔ xiāng | རྩེ་གཤོངས་ཤང་། | rtse gshongs shang | ||
| Nyangra Township | 娘热乡 | Niángrè xiāng | ཉང་ར་ཤང་། | nyang ra shang[15] | ||
| Tsozhi Township | 措布西乡 | Cuòbùxī xiāng | ཚོ་བཞི་ཤང་། | tsho bzhi shang[16] | ||
| Nartang Township | 纳当乡 | Nàdāng xiāng | སྣར་ཐང་ཤང་། | snar thang shang | ||
| Qingtü Township | 青都乡 | Qīngdū xiāng | བྱིན་མཐུ་ཤང་། | byin mthu shang | ||
| Qêqung Township | 切琼乡 | Qiēqióng xiāng | བྱེ་ཆུང་ཤང་། | bye chung shang | ||
| Mübaqêqên Township | 美巴切勤乡 | Měibāqiēqín xiāng | མུས་པ་བྱེས་ཆེན་ཤང་། | mus pa byes chen shang | ||
| Lêba Township | 列巴乡 | Lièbā xiāng | སླེ་པ་ཤང་། | sle pa shang | ||
| Tarding Township | 塔定乡 | Tǎdìng xiāng | དར་སྡིངས་ཤང་། | dar sdings shang | ||
| Rungma Township | 荣玛乡 | Róngmǎ xiāng | རུང་མ་ཤང་། | rung ma shang | ||
| Tongmoin Township | 通门乡 | Tōngmén xiāng | མཐོང་སྨོན་ཤང་། | mthong smon shang | ||
| Danagpu Township | 达那普乡 | Dánàpǔ xiāng | རྟ་ནག་ཕུ་ཤང་། | rta nag phu shang | ||
| Danagda Township | 达那塔乡 | Dánàtǎ xiāng | རྟ་ནག་མདའ་ཤང་། | rta nag mda' shang | ||
| Namoqê Township | 南木切乡 | Nánmùqiē xiāng | ན་མོ་ཆེ་ཤང་། | na mo che shang[17] | ||
| Ringqênzê Township | 仁钦则乡 | Rénqīnzé xiāng | རིན་ཆེན་རྩེ་ཤང་། | rin chen rtse shang[18] | ||
