Items filtered by date: September 2014

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Chengdu & Around

Sanxingdui Museum

Sanxingdui Museum is located in the northeastern corner of the Sanxingdui site, on the banks of the Yazi River in western Guanghan, 40 kilometers to the north of Chengdu.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Chengdu & Around

Wide and Narrow alleys (Kuan Zhai Xiangzi)

Wide and Narrow alleys (Kuan Zhai Xiangzi), two ancient streets preserved from the old architectures in Ming and Qing dynasties in Chengdu, featuring with quadrangle courtyards, boutique hotels,

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Chengdu & Around

Jinsha Site Museum

The Jinsha site was unearthed in 2001, in the western suburbs of Chengdu. Flourishing from about 1200 - 500 BC, Jinsha was an unwalled town that belonged to the Sanxingdui culture.

Located in northern suburban Chengdu, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding covers an area of 600,000 square meters.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Sertar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute

Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, located in a side valley about 15km south of Sertar township in Gantze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, is the world’s largest Buddhist Academy.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Litang Chode

At the north of town of Litang in Gantze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Litang Chode, also known as Ganden Tubchen Chokhorling, was built in 1580 for the third Dalai Lhama.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Dege Press Printing House

Dege Barkhang Scripture Printing Press is a magnificent three-story wooden building stores more than 217,000 hand-carved wooden blocks of Tibetan scriptures and Thangka paintings, which houses 70 percent of the Tibetan literary heritage.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Xinluhai Lake (Yilhun Lhatso Lake)

Located 12 km southwest of Manigange town in Gantze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where has a turquoise-blue alpine lake of the scared of Yilhun Lhatso (also called Xinluhai Lake) with altitude of 4,040 meters.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Tagong Monastery

Tagong, means the place Buddha likes in Tibetan language. Tagong Monastery with the backdrop of Yala Snow Mountain (5,884m), is one of the impact monasteries in Kham, this 1,000-plus years Sakya sect monastery is worshipped as the ‘small Jokhang Monastery’ by Khampa Tibetans because there is a statue of Sakyamuni that is the same as the one in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa.

Thursday, 04 September 2014 00:00 Published in Sights in Kham

Gongga Mountain

Gonga Mountain, also called Minyak Gongga, means the white and snow-capped mountain in Tibetan language. Stands on the borders of Kangding, Luding and Jiulong counties in western Sichuan at 7,556 meters above the sea level, it is regarded as the ‘King Mountain of Sichuan’.