Gyangtse

English thumb|Map including GYANGTSE (Army Map Service AMS, 1954) Proper noun en Gyantse. en 1984 1983 w:Heinrich Harrer Return to Gyangtse Wiedersehn mit Tibet Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation https://archive.org/details/returntotibet0000harr_e3r8/ 0-75380-804-8 1041483898 134 https://archive.org/details/returntotibet0000harr_e3r8/page/134/ The market of Gyangtse, once a famous trading-post, has lost much of its former liveliness. Gyangtse used to be the place where the best carpets and textiles were made; a manufactory is again operating at the foot of the ancient fortress, but this now belongs to the commune, and the classical flower-motifs on the carpets have been replaced by dragons and other Chinese symbols. en October 19, 1997 w:Karen Swenson Approaches To Tibet w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20090523062612/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/19/travel/approaches-to-tibet.html 23 May 2009 0362-4331 1645522 Travel Gyangtse, my favorite Tibetan town, half a day's journey farther southeast on this route, has not yet met that fate. A stroll down the main street between Tibetan houses topped by rippling prayer flags takes one to the monastery and the Kumbum, a white wedding-cake structure honeycombed with chapels whose walls are bright with 15th-century murals. It is the Ste.-Chapelle of Asia. en 2009 John Strawson Gentlemen in Khaki and Camouflage: the British Army 1890-2008 https://archive.org/details/gentlemeninkhaki0000stra_r1m8/ w:Pen & Sword 978-1-84415-978-9 938872214 24480543M 77 https://archive.org/details/gentlemeninkhaki0000stra_r1m8/page/77/ Younghusband and his force stayed put, however, and then in March advanced again with a view to reaching his initial objective, Gyangtse, some 150 miles inside Tibet.[...]Nevertheless Younghusband and his force persevered. They skirmished their way to Gyangtse, and, reinforced by a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, entered Lhasa at the beginning of August, 1904. en 5 JAN 2020 PATTARAWADEE SAENGMANEE Awakening from the quaking https://web.archive.org/web/20220527124224/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A6Z7Lye0CO6wJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.bangkokpost.com%2Ftravel%2F1829024%2Fawakening-from-the-quaking 27 May 2022 w:Bangkok Post After sundown, we continued to Boudhanath Stupa in the east of Kathmandu. Built by Tibetan pilgrims, the capital city's largest Buddhist stupa was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979 and took its inspiration from the Gyangtse of Tibet. en Translations Gyantse