Tingri County

Tingri County or Dhringgri County (Tibetan: དིང་རི་རྫོང་།, Wylie: ding ri rdzong, ZYPY: Tingri Zong; Chinese: 定日县; pinyin: Dìngrì Xiàn), is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Tingri County
定日县 • དིང་རི་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Tingri County (red) within Xigazê City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tingri County is located in Tibet
Tingri County
Tingri County
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Coordinates (Tingri County government, Shelkar): 28°39′32″N 87°07′34″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityXigazê
SeatShelkar
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries plus the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas including Mount Everest (Tib. Chomolungma), Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km (54 mi) east of Tingri (town).[1]

It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve (Tingri, Dinjie, Nyalam, and Kyirong).[2]

Towns and townships
Map including Tingri (labelled as TINGRI DZONG) (1954)
Map including Tingri (T'ing-jih) (DMA, 1981)
Zhangton Chobar, Lamdre practitioner, b. 1053 in Tingri County [3]
  • Shelkar Town (ཤེལ་དཀར་, 协格尔镇)
  • Gangga Town (སྒང་དགའ་, 岗嘎镇)
  • Qutang Township (ཆུ་ཐང་, 曲当乡)
  • Tashi Dzom Township (བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཛོམས་, 扎西宗乡)
  • Kaimar Township (གད་དམར་, 克玛乡)
  • Ronxar Township (རོང་ཤར་, 绒辖乡)
  • Cogo Township (མཚོ་སྒོ་, 措果乡)
  • Qulho Township (ཆུ་ལྷོ་, 曲洛乡)
  • Chamco Township (གྲམ་མཚོ་, 长所乡)
  • Nyixar Township (ཉི་ཤར་, 尼辖乡)
  • Zagor Township (རྩ་སྐོར་, 扎果乡)
  • Pain'gyi Township (ཕན་སྐྱིད་, 盆吉乡)
  • Gyaco Township (བརྒྱ་ཚོ་, 加措乡)

Climate
Climate data for Tingri (1981−2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.7
(58.5)		 15.0
(59.0)		 18.7
(65.7)		 20.8
(69.4)		 23.8
(74.8)		 25.1
(77.2)		 25.8
(78.4)		 23.4
(74.1)		 22.8
(73.0)		 19.3
(66.7)		 17.2
(63.0)		 13.4
(56.1)		 25.8
(78.4)
Average high °C (°F) 3.7
(38.7)		 4.9
(40.8)		 8.2
(46.8)		 11.7
(53.1)		 15.9
(60.6)		 20.0
(68.0)		 19.3
(66.7)		 18.0
(64.4)		 17.0
(62.6)		 13.0
(55.4)		 8.1
(46.6)		 5.1
(41.2)		 12.1
(53.7)
Daily mean °C (°F) −6.6
(20.1)		 −4.8
(23.4)		 −1.0
(30.2)		 2.8
(37.0)		 7.2
(45.0)		 11.8
(53.2)		 12.3
(54.1)		 11.4
(52.5)		 9.8
(49.6)		 3.7
(38.7)		 −2.3
(27.9)		 −5.8
(21.6)		 3.2
(37.8)
Average low °C (°F) −16.5
(2.3)		 −14.5
(5.9)		 −10.4
(13.3)		 −5.9
(21.4)		 −0.7
(30.7)		 4.8
(40.6)		 7.1
(44.8)		 6.7
(44.1)		 3.7
(38.7)		 −4.5
(23.9)		 −11.4
(11.5)		 −15.5
(4.1)		 −4.8
(23.4)
Record low °C (°F) −27.7
(−17.9)		 −25.3
(−13.5)		 −19.0
(−2.2)		 −14.0
(6.8)		 −8.3
(17.1)		 −4.0
(24.8)		 1.4
(34.5)		 0.2
(32.4)		 −4.1
(24.6)		 −12.3
(9.9)		 −19.0
(−2.2)		 −27.5
(−17.5)		 −27.7
(−17.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.9
(0.04)		 0.6
(0.02)		 0.4
(0.02)		 1.7
(0.07)		 8.8
(0.35)		 22.8
(0.90)		 103.3
(4.07)		 117.7
(4.63)		 28.5
(1.12)		 2.6
(0.10)		 0.9
(0.04)		 0.8
(0.03)		 289
(11.39)
Average relative humidity (%) 27 27 29 34 41 49 59 64 57 42 35 29 41
Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[4]

Transport
Dampa Sangye, author of the Dingri One Hundred [5][6][7] and founder of Dingri Langkhor [8]
Machig Labdrön (1055-1149), student of Padampa Sanggye at Dingri Langkhor [9][8]

Footnotes
  1. Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan, p. 296. 2nd edition (1999). Gyume Dorje. Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 1-900949-33-4.
  2. Department of Forestry, Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, ‘’Report on Protected Lands in the Tibet Autonomous Region’’ Lhasa: Tibet Autonomous Region Government Publishing House, 2006
  3. Gardener, Alexander (2010). "Zhangton Chobar". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  4. 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  5. Sorensen, Michelle (2011). "Padampa Sanggye". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  6. "The Tingri Hundred". Tibetological. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  7. "ding ri glang 'khor". Rangjung Yeshe Wiki - Dharma Dictionnary. 2005. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  8. "Dingri Langkhor". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  9. Sorenson, Michelle (2010). "Machik Labdron". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

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