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'''Kham''' ([[Wyl.]] ''khams''), often translated as '''Eastern Tibet''', is one of the three main provinces of Tibet (the others being [[Ü-Tsang]] and [[Amdo]] | '''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 | The 'four rivers' are the | ||
*Manchu, | *Manchu, | ||
*Dzachu, | *[[Dzachu]], | ||
*Drichu, and | *[[Drichu]], and | ||
*Ngulchu. | *Ngulchu. | ||
{{Tibetan}} | |||
The 'six ranges' are the | The 'six ranges' are the | ||
*Zalmo Range (Wyl. ''zal mo sgang''), | *[[Zalmo Range]] (Tib. ཟལ་མོ་སྒང་, Wyl. ''zal mo sgang''), | ||
*Tsawa Range (Wyl. ''tsha ba sgang''), | *Tsawa Range (Tib. ཚ་བ་སྒང་, Wyl. ''tsha ba sgang''), | ||
*Markham Range (Wyl. ''smar khams sgang''), | *Markham Range (Tib. སྨར་ཁམས་སྒང་, Wyl. ''smar khams sgang''), | ||
*Minyak-rab Range (Wyl. ''mi nyag rab sgang''), | *Minyak-rab Range (Tib. མི་ཉག་རབ་སྒང་, Wyl. ''mi nyag rab sgang''), | ||
*Pobor Range (Wyl. ''spo 'bor sgang''), and | *Pobor Range (Tib. སྤོ་འབོར་སྒང་, Wyl. ''spo 'bor sgang''), and | ||
*Mardza Range (Wyl. ''dmar rdza sgang''). | *Mardza Range (Tib. དམར་རྫ་སྒང་, Wyl. ''dmar rdza sgang''). | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[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.] | ||
*[http://treasuryoflives.org/place/embed#7/31.000/98.000 Treasury of Lives Map] | |||
[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:Tibet]] | [[Category:Tibet]] | ||
Latest revision as of 21:25, 10 December 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).