Xaitongmoin County

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.

Xaitongmoin County
谢通门县 • བཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།
Zhetongmön
County
Location of Xaitongmoin County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Location of Xaitongmoin County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet AR
Xaitongmoin is located in Tibet
Xaitongmoin
Xaitongmoin
Location in Tibet
Xaitongmoin is located in China
Xaitongmoin
Xaitongmoin
Xaitongmoin (China)
Coordinates (Xaitongmoin government): 29°25′30″N 88°15′22″E
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
County seatChabkha (Thongmon)
Area
 • Total13,964.95 km2 (5,391.90 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total45,573
 • Density3.3/km2 (8.5/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.xietongmen.gov.cn
Xaitongmoin County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese谢通门县
Traditional Chinese謝通門縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanབཞད་མཐོང་སྨོན་རྫོང་།

History

Ganden Lhading, which became a branch of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, was founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1650.[3] Renga Chode, a Shangpa Kagyu Monastery, was also founded in 1050. It converted to Gelug in 1600.[4]

Tashi Gepel was a minor 14th century Kagyu nunnery.[5]

Takmo Lingka, a Sakya monastery, was founded here in 1436.[6]

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.[7]

Gonga Choding, a Nyingma monastery, was founded in 1500, and converted to Gelug in 1650.[8]

A Gelug hermitage, Ngulchu Chodzong, was known for its printery.[9][10]

The county was home to the 16th century main estate of the Thon Pa family.[11]

Administration divisions

Xaitongmoin County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie
Town
Chabkha Town
(Thongmon)		 卡嘎镇 Kǎgā zhèn ཆབ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། chab kha grong rdal[12]
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[13]
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[14]
Tsozhi Township 措布西乡 Cuòbùxī xiāng ཚོ་བཞི་ཤང་། tsho bzhi shang[15]
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[16]
Ringqênzê Township 仁钦则乡 Rénqīnzé xiāng རིན་ཆེན་རྩེ་ཤང་། rin chen rtse shang[17]

Other settlement

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