Baxoi County
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Baxoi County, occasionally transliterated from Tibetan as Pashoe County, (Tibetan
: དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ Wylie
dpa' shod rdzong; Chinese
: 八宿县; Pinyin
: Bāsù Xiàn) is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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Population 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery
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Tibetan script
The Tibetan alphabet is an abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Denzongkha, Ladakhi language and sometimes the Balti language. The printed form of the alphabet is called uchen script while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday...
: དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་ Wylie
Wylie transliteration
The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter. It bears the name of Turrell V. Wylie, who described the scheme in an article, A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription, published in 1959...
dpa' shod rdzong; Chinese
Chinese character
Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...
: 八宿县; Pinyin
Pinyin
Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...
: Bāsù Xiàn) is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region , Tibet or Xizang for short, also called the Xizang Autonomous Region is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China , created in 1965....
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Population 35,273 (1999). It contains the Pomda Monastery
Pomda Monastery
Bamda is a village and monastery in Baxoi County, Tibet. Pomda Monastery is a lamasery in Bomda. It was destroyed in 1959 but rebuilt between 1984 and 1988. The monastery is around 360 years old and is home to 90 monks. The entrance hallway has a number of murals depicting monastic dress codes....
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