Riwoqê County
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Riwoqê County, or Riwoche (Tibetan
: རི་བོ་ཆེ་རྫོང་, Wylie
ri bo che rdzong; Chinese
: 类乌齐县; Pinyin
: Lèiwūqí Xiàn) is a county of the Chamdo Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region
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Located in the former province of Kham
, Riwoche Monastery
located here became the seat of the Taklung Kagyu, one of the four chief schools of the Kagyu
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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...
: རི་བོ་ཆེ་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...
ri bo che rdzong; Chinese
Chinese character
Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...
: 类乌齐县; 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...
: Lèiwūqí 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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Located in the former province of Kham
Kham
Kham , is a historical region covering a land area largely divided between present-day Tibetan Autonomous Region and Sichuan province, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China. During the Republic of China's rule over mainland China , most of the region was...
, Riwoche Monastery
Riwoche Monastery
Riwoche Monastery, Riwoche Tsuklakhang Tragyelma is situated 29 km north of the small town of Ratsaka , and 134 km west of Chamdo in Kham...
located here became the seat of the Taklung Kagyu, one of the four chief schools of the Kagyu
Kagyu
The Kagyu, Kagyupa, or Kagyud school, also known as the "Oral Lineage" or Whispered Transmission school, is today regarded as one of six main schools of Himalayan or Tibetan Buddhism, the other five being the Nyingma, Sakya, Jonang, Bon and Gelug...
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