Yangbajain
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Yangbajain (also spelled Yangbajing; ) is a town approximately north-west of Lhasa, halfway to Damxung in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The town lies just south of the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, in an upland lush green valley surrounded by the tents of nomads with grazing yak and sheep populating the hillside. It is the site Yangpachen Monastery, which was historically the seat of the Shamarpas of Karma Kagyü and the Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory.
Key facts
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- Yangbajain
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- Tibetan
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- Tibetan
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- ཡངས་པ་ཅན།
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- Wylie transliteration
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- yangs pa can
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- pronunciation in IPA
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- official transcription (PRC)
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- Yangbajain
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- THDL
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- Yangpachen
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- other transcriptions
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- Yangpachän
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- Chinese
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- Traditional/Simplified
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- Pinyin
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- Yángbājǐng
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- YangpachenValley.jpg
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- Official name
- 羊八井镇
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- Geothermal field
- Holy Medical Spring Resort
- Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory
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Yangbajain (also spelled Yangbajing; ) is a town approximately north-west of Lhasa, halfway to Damxung in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The town lies just south of the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, in an upland lush green valley surrounded by the tents of nomads with grazing yak and sheep populating the hillside. It is the site Yangpachen Monastery, which was historically the seat of the Shamarpas of Karma Kagyü and the Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory.
==Geothermal field==
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