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*[https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/wiki/site/679c2e7e-ca49-462b-0038-a5e0534b709f/kham%20place%20essay.html 'Kham Place Essay' from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar; Contributors: Alison Melnick, Chelsea Hall.] | *[https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/wiki/site/679c2e7e-ca49-462b-0038-a5e0534b709f/kham%20place%20essay.html 'Kham Place Essay' from the Tibetan Renaissance Seminar; Contributors: Alison Melnick, Chelsea Hall.] | ||
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Revision as of 19:44, 9 March 2017
Kham (Tib. ཁམས་, Wyl. khams), often translated as Eastern Tibet, is one of the three main provinces of Tibet (the others being Ü-Tsang and Amdo).
Four Rivers & Six Ranges
Traditionally, Kham is said to cover the area known as the 'four rivers and six ranges' (Tib. ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་, chushyi gang druk). The 'four rivers' are the
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The 'six ranges' are the
- Zalmo Range (Tib. ཟལ་མོ་སྒང་, Wyl. zal mo sgang),
- Tsawa Range (Tib. ཚ་བ་སྒང་, Wyl. tsha ba sgang),
- Markham Range (Tib. སྨར་ཁམས་སྒང་, Wyl. smar khams sgang),
- Minyak-rab Range (Tib. མི་ཉག་རབ་སྒང་, Wyl. mi nyag rab sgang),
- Pobor Range (Tib. སྤོ་འབོར་སྒང་, Wyl. spo 'bor sgang), and
- Mardza Range (Tib. དམར་རྫ་སྒང་, Wyl. dmar rdza sgang).