Namling County
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Namling County |
| native_name | |
| settlement_type | County |
| total_type | |
| image_map | Location of Namling within Xizang (China).png |
| map_caption | Location of Namling County (red) within Shigatse City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region |
| pushpin_map | Tibet#China |
| pushpin_label | Namling |
| pushpin_map_caption | Location of the seat in Tibet |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | China |
| subdivision_type1 | Autonomous region |
| subdivision_name1 | Tibet |
| subdivision_type2 | Prefecture-level city |
| subdivision_name2 | Shigatse |
| seat_type | County seat |
| seat | Namling |
| area_total_km2 | 8,106.84 |
| population_as_of | 2020 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 83531 |
| population_density_km2 | auto |
| timezone | China Standard |
| utc_offset | +8 |
| coor_type | |
| coordinates | |
| website | |
| :: |
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Geography
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Namling is the current administrative name given to the valleys of Oyuk, Tobgyet, and Shang ... [associated]... with both Buddhism and Bon. Through these valleys respectively flow the 'Nang-gung-chu'mang ra chu Tobpu-chu, and Shang-chu rivers, with their various tributaries, which rise amid the southern slopes of the Nyenchen Tanglha range to the north, and flow southwards to converge with the Brahmaputra [called the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet].{{Cite web | title = Namling County | work = TibetMaster.com | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.tibetmaster.com/Destination_Guide/Shigatse_Villages/Namling%20County%20,tibet%20tour.html }} ::
The lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River make "a sharp U-turn around Namjagbarwa Peak in Pai, Namling County." This is regarded as the starting point of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Nyingchi Prefecture, which stretches 496 km and averages over 5000 m in depth. The county has three geysers.{{Cite news | issue = 35 | pages = 28 | last = Mingzhen | first = Sun | title = Geothermal Energy Lights Up Tibet | work = Beijing Review | access-date = 2013-10-19 | year = 1984 | url = http://www.bjreview.com.cn/special/tibet/txt/2008-05/07/content_115299.htm
Administration divisions
Namling County is divided into 1 town and 16 townships.
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| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | ||||
| Namling Town | 南木林镇 | zh | bo | |
| Townships | ||||
| Dagna Township | 达那乡 | zh | bo | |
| Karzê Township | 卡孜乡 | zh | bo | |
| Doqoi Township | 多角乡 | zh | bo | |
| Qum Township | 秋木乡 | zh | bo | |
| Êma Township | 艾玛乡 | zh | bo | |
| Tobgyai Township | 土布加乡 | zh | bo | |
| Car Township | 茶尔乡 | zh | bo | |
| Sogqên Township | 索金乡 | zh | bo | |
| Dakce Township | 达孜乡 | zh | bo | |
| Numa Township | 奴玛乡 | zh | bo | |
| Ratang Township | 热当乡 | zh | bo | |
| Lhabupu Township | 拉布普乡 | zh | bo | |
| Putang Township | 普当乡 | zh | bo | |
| Rindü Township | 仁堆乡 | zh | bo | |
| Mangra Township | 芒热乡 | zh | bo | |
| Gyamco Township | 甲措乡 | zh | bo | |
| :: |
Climate
| width = auto | metric first = y | single line = y | collapsed = Y | location = Namling, elevation 4000 m, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | Jan high C = 5.5 | Feb high C = 7.3 | Mar high C = 10.5 | Apr high C = 13.9 | May high C = 17.9 | Jun high C = 21.5 | Jul high C = 20.5 | Aug high C = 19.7 | Sep high C = 18.5 | Oct high C = 14.9 | Nov high C = 10.4 | Dec high C = 7.2 | Jan mean C = -3.0 | Feb mean C = -0.5 | Mar mean C = 3.1 | Apr mean C = 6.7 | May mean C = 10.5 | Jun mean C = 14.0 | Jul mean C = 13.6 | Aug mean C = 12.8 | Sep mean C = 11.0 | Oct mean C = 6.7 | Nov mean C = 1.6 | Dec mean C = -2.0 | Jan low C = -10.8 | Feb low C = -8.4 | Mar low C = -4.4 | Apr low C = -0.4 | May low C = 3.6 | Jun low C = 7.2 | Jul low C = 8.4 | Aug low C = 7.8 | Sep low C = 5.6 | Oct low C = 0.1 | Nov low C = -5.2 | Dec low C = -9.2 | Jan record high C = 16.9 | Jan record low C = -17.8 | Feb record high C = 17.4 | Feb record low C = -16.5 | Mar record high C = 20.9 | Mar record low C = -13.0 | Apr record high C = 22.0 | Apr record low C = -7.5 | May record high C = 25.2 | May record low C = -3.3 | Jun record high C = 27.4 | Jun record low C = 0.2 | Jul record high C = 26.5 | Jul record low C = 2.6 | Aug record high C = 25.3 | Aug record low C = 1.3 | Sep record high C = 23.6 | Sep record low C = 0.0 | Oct record high C = 22.1 | Oct record low C = -7.2 | Nov record high C = 19.6 | Nov record low C = -11.9 | Dec record high C = 15.9 | Dec record low C = -16.9 | year high C = | year low C = | year high F = | year low F = | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 0.4 | Feb precipitation mm = 0.6 | Mar precipitation mm = 1.5 | Apr precipitation mm = 5.6 | May precipitation mm = 23.4 | Jun precipitation mm = 86.5 | Jul precipitation mm = 150.5 | Aug precipitation mm = 139.1 | Sep precipitation mm = 74.2 | Oct precipitation mm = 4.9 | Nov precipitation mm = 0.6 | Dec precipitation mm = 0.4 | Jan humidity = 24 | Feb humidity = 24 | Mar humidity = 26 | Apr humidity = 34 | May humidity = 43 | Jun humidity = 53 | Jul humidity = 66 | Aug humidity = 70 | Sep humidity = 66 | Oct humidity = 45 | Nov humidity = 29 | Dec humidity = 24 | unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm | Jan precipitation days = 0.6 | Feb precipitation days = 0.9 | Mar precipitation days = 1.3 | Apr precipitation days = 3.5 | May precipitation days = 7.2 | Jun precipitation days = 13.3 | Jul precipitation days = 21.0 | Aug precipitation days = 21.7 | Sep precipitation days = 14.8 | Oct precipitation days = 2.3 | Nov precipitation days = 0.6 | Dec precipitation days = 0.3 | year precipitation days = | Jan sun = 219.4 | Feb sun = 216.2 | Mar sun = 245.0 | Apr sun = 246.4 | May sun = 282.3 | Jun sun = 265.7 | Jul sun = 211.2 | Aug sun = 209.7 | Sep sun = 231.6 | Oct sun = 274.7 | Nov sun = 242.0 | Dec sun = 228.0 | year sun = | Jan percentsun = 67 | Feb percentsun = 68 | Mar percentsun = 65 | Apr percentsun = 63 | May percentsun = 67 | Jun percentsun = 63 | Jul percentsun = 50 | Aug percentsun = 52 | Sep percentsun = 63 | Oct percentsun = 78 | Nov percentsun = 77 | Dec percentsun = 72 | year percentsun = | Jan snow days = 1.1 | Feb snow days = 1.7 | Mar snow days = 2.7 | Apr snow days = 5.9 | May snow days = 2.8 | Jun snow days = 0 | Jul snow days = 0 | Aug snow days = 0 | Sep snow days = 0.1 | Oct snow days = 1.3 | Nov snow days = 0.8 | Dec snow days = 0.7 | year snow days = | source 1 = China Meteorological Administration | source =
Development efforts
The Namling County Schools Project was founded by Tashi Tsering in 1991, and has been sponsored by the Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project (BLSCP) since 1994. As of 2013, it supports 53 rural elementary schools.{{Cite web | title = Namling County Schools Project | work = Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://boulder-tibet.org/programs/program_namling.html | publisher = E. Mellen Press | isbn = 0773465790 | last = Siebenschuh | first = William R. | title = The struggle for education in modern Tibet: the three thousand children of Tashi Tsering | location = Lewiston, NY | year = 2003 | publisher = M.E. Sharpe | isbn = 1563249502 | last = Goldstein | first = Melvyn C. | title = The struggle for modern Tibet: the autobiography of Tashi Tsering | location = Armonk, N.Y | year = 1997
As of 2006, 15 out of the county's 17 towns had cell phone service.{{Cite web | title = Tibetan farmers' wireless phone | work = www.gov.cn/english | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.gov.cn/english/special/2006-08/08/content_357637.htm
As of 2001, potatoes have been introduced in Aimagang (Emagang) as a crop for herdsmen in the county.{{Cite web |title = Planting potato benefits herdsmen in Namling |work = Chinatibetnews.com |access-date = 2013-10-19 |date = August 2009 |url = http://english.chinatibetnews.com/Gallery/2009-08/28/content_293230.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020145116/http://english.chinatibetnews.com/Gallery/2009-08/28/content_293230.htm |archive-date = 2013-10-20 |title = Special Economy in the Xigaze Area - Namling Potatoes |work = China's Tibet |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://2007.tibetmagazine.net/en/economyp.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020084308/http://2007.tibetmagazine.net/en/economyp.htm |archive-date = 2013-10-20 |title = Shigatse develops distinctive products |work = China Tibet Online |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://eng.tibet.cn/2010home/news/201103/t20110302_942225.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020104558/http://eng.tibet.cn/2010home/news/201103/t20110302_942225.html |archive-date = 2013-10-20
The 2009 HIV/AIDS outreach efforts in rural areas of the county appear to have had a positive impact in comparison to a similar non-intervention area of Tingri County, according to Medicus Mundi Switzerland.{{Cite journal |issue = 121 |last = Christofori |first = Monika |author2 = Sybille N’Zebo |title = Join in circuit on AIDS, love and sexuality |journal = Bulletin of Medicus Mundi Switzerland |access-date = 2013-10-19 |date = September 2011 |url = http://www.medicusmundi.ch/mms/services/bulletin/hiv-sexuality-and-youth-linking-hiv-and-reproductive-health-and-rights/chances-and-challenges-of-linking-hiv-and-srhr-case-studies/join-in-circuit-on-aids-love-and-sexuality.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020114429/http://www.medicusmundi.ch/mms/services/bulletin/hiv-sexuality-and-youth-linking-hiv-and-reproductive-health-and-rights/chances-and-challenges-of-linking-hiv-and-srhr-case-studies/join-in-circuit-on-aids-love-and-sexuality.html |archive-date = 2013-10-20 | title = HIV Market evaluation - executive summary | work = Swiss Red Cross 2011 Delegation to Tibet | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.ifrc.org/docs/Evaluations/Evaluations2011/Asia%20Pacific/3%20HIV%20Market%20evaluation%20-%20executive%20summary.pdf
In 2010, protests of environmental damage by gold mining resulted in arrests and at least one fatality.{{Cite web | title = China says only one Tibetan shot dead in Palyul mine protest | work = www.phayul.com | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=28059 |title = Tibetans severely beaten and held for opposing rampant mining |work = Tibetan Review |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://www.tibetanreview.net/news.php?&id=8339 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110524065650/http://www.tibetanreview.net/news.php?&id=8339 |archive-date = 2011-05-24
In 2011, Qin Weiqiang, secretary of the Namling County Party Committee, said that after the "Lhasa–Xigazê Railway is put into operation", the number of tourists in Namling County was expected to increase.
Culture
"The famous local specialities are silver utensils, Tibetan sword and so on. Namling Town is the office place of Namling with a population 5,000, where are many monasteries."{{Cite web | title = Namling County | work = China Tibet Information Center | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://info.tibet.cn/en/unspoiled-land/gel/t20050313_17082.htm
Traditional Tibetan opera is popular in Namling County, and government funding efforts to preserve the tradition were started in 2005.{{Cite web |title = Tibet earmarks fund to preserve traditional opera |work = ChinaCulture.org |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://www.chinaculture.org/info/2010-07/01/content_384317.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020070314/http://www.chinaculture.org/info/2010-07/01/content_384317.htm |archive-date = 2013-10-20 | title = School 3: Xiangba School in Namling County, Xigaze | work = Cultural China | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/Traditions/en/17T3628T10071.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020110753/http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/Traditions/en/17T3628T10071.html | archive-date = 2013-10-20 | url-status = dead |title = Xiangba Tibetan opera in Namling |work = China Tibet Information Center |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://tibet.cn/en/news/tin/t20051008_60758.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060328124341/http://tibet.cn/en/news/tin/t20051008_60758.htm |archive-date = 2006-03-28 | title = Xigaze | work = China Tibet Information Center | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.tibetinfor.com.cn/tibetzt/rikaze/5_Today%20Xigaze/d/1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020155949/http://www.tibetinfor.com.cn/tibetzt/rikaze/5_Today%20Xigaze/d/1.htm | archive-date = 2013-10-20 | url-status = dead
Namling County and the Xiangqu River Basin were a cultural center of the Supi tribe, known as "The Kingdom of Women", and "one of the earliest tribes in Tibet." After "the end of the sixth century, the Supi tribe moved its political center to the Lhasa River Basin."
As of 1999, the county was home to the critically endangered Golden-headed box turtle (Cuora aurocapitata).{{Citation | title = Asian Box Turtles (Cuora spp.) | work = Pro Wildlife | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://nytts.org/asia/cuora-tab.pdf
Monasteries
Yungdrungling Monastery "is located at the foot of the Yulha Jiesam mountain in the Numa village in Namling County about 90 km. from Xigazê. The monastery is surrounded by dense wood ... it is one of the four major monasteries of Bon religion in Tibet."{{Cite web | title = Rala Yungdrungling monastery, (near) Rela, Xizang, CN | work = Mapping Buddhist Monasteries | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://monastic-asia.wikidot.com/rala
Danag Monastery, over 800 years old, is located in Danag Village.{{Cite web | title = Mapping work of Danag Monastery completed | work = People's Daily Online | access-date = 2013-10-19 | date = 2010-01-25 | url = http://chinatibet.people.com.cn/6877965.html
The remains of the Dingma Monastery, an 11th-century Kadampa monastery, are located on a hill in the Oyuk Valley. It was founded by Ram Dingma Deshek Jungne, a student of Geshe Potowa.
The Gongon Lhakhang temple, in Oyuk Township, was said to be built by Songtsen Gampo, and frequented by Padmasambhava and his students Namkhai Nyingpo and King Trisong Detsen in the 8th century.
Oyuk Chigong or Oyuk Jara Gon is a hermitage located at Jarasa in lower Oyuk. It is "the abode or castle of the protector deity Dorje Lekpa: guardian of the Dzogchen teachings."
The Gelukpa monasteries of Drungzhi and Sogchen are located in the Tobgyel Valley.
Gadan Chiokorling Monastery, located 1 km from the county center, originally called Gegon Songrapling Monastery, became part of the Gelgupa Sect during the reign of the 5th Dalai Lama.{{Cite web | title = 3-day Tibet Shigatse Hiking to Visit Temples | work = Travel China Guide | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.travelchinaguide.com/tour/tibet/tours16.htm
Notable people
- Mokchokpa Rinchen Tsondrü (1110-1170?) of the Shangpa Kagyu was born in the Lhabu grasslands of the county's Shang Valley.{{Cite web | title = Mokchokpa Rinchen Tsondrü | work = Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionary | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Mokchokpa_Rinchen_Tsondr%C3%BC
- Lobsang Yeshe, Fifth Panchen Lama (1663–1737) was born in Namling County.{{Cite web |last = Aiming |first = Zhou |title = 中国西藏 |work = Ctibet.org |access-date = 2013-10-19 |url = http://2007.tibetmagazine.net/en/dqzz/2006-2/80200604010010.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131020091121/http://2007.tibetmagazine.net/en/dqzz/2006-2/80200604010010.htm |archive-date = 2013-10-20
- Tenpai Wangchuk, 8th Panchen Lama (1855–1882) was born in Namling County.
- Chadrel Rinpoche (b. 1940) was born in Namling County.
- Guisang Sang (b. appx. 1958), who joined the Tibet Mountaineering Team in 1982, was the first woman in Asia to reach the top of Mount Everest twice.{{Cite web | title = August 1-10th 1999 Daily Reports | work = Everest News | access-date = 2013-10-19 | url = http://www.k2news.com/john.htm | title = Tibetan women on top of the world | work = China Daily | access-date = 2013-10-19 | date = 2004-03-08 | url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/08/content_312732.htm
- Tashi Tsering (educator) (1929-2014)
References
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