Day: December 13, 2025

Labrang monastery is one of the six great monasteries of the Geluk (Yellow Hat) school of Tibetan Buddhism. Labrang is located in Xiahe County in Gansu province, and also considered to be in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside of Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe […]

Xiahe County (Chinese:夏河县; Tibetan:བསང་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, China, bordering Qinghai province to the west. The name (both Chinese and Tibetan), which literally means “Xia River”, refers to the Daxia River which runs through the county. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one of the […]

Tianshui, city, southeastern Gansu sheng (province), north-central China. It is situated along the Wei River and was historically an important place along the Silk Road, the great route westward from Chang’an (present-day Xi’an, Shaanxi province) to Central Asia and Europe. This route is today followed by a highway and by the Longhai Railway, which was […]