A'nyê Maqên
| A'nyê Maqên / Animaqing Shan | ||
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 Make Kangri , main peak of A'nyê Maqên , from the south |
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| height | 6282 m | |
| location | Qinghai ( PR China ) | |
| Coordinates | 34 ° 47 '54 " N , 99 ° 27' 45" E | |
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| First ascent | 1981 - Galen Rowell, Harold Knutsen, Kim Scmitz (USA) | |
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Tibetan script :
ཨ་ མྱེས་ རྨ་ ཆེན །
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Wylie transliteration : a myes rma chen
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Official transcription of the PRCh : A'nyê Maqên
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THDL transcription : Amyé do
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Other spellings: Amnye Machin, Amne Machin
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Traditional :
阿尼瑪卿 山 、 大 積石山
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Simplified :
阿尼玛卿 山 、 大 积石山
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Pinyin : Āní Mǎqīng Shān, Dà Jīshí Shān
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A'nyê Maqên ( Tibetan ཨ་ མྱེས་ རྨ་ ཆེན Wylie a myes rma chen , Amnye Make ) is a mountain in Maqên County of the Golog Autonomous District of the Tibetans in the Qinghai Province of the People's Republic of China .
Location and description
The Amnyemachen ("Snow-Covered Mountain") is located in the mountains of the northeastern flank of the Tibetan Highlands , in the headwaters of the Huang He , south of Lake Qinghai .
The Bergstock consists of three peaks. The main peak, Make Kangri ( Tibetan རྨ་ ཆེན་ གངས་ རི ། Wylie rma chen gangs ri , Chinese 玛 卿 岗 日 , Pinyin Maqing Gangri ) is 6,282 m high. For a time in the first half of the 20th century it was considered the highest mountain in the world. The Tibetan highlands there reach heights of around 4000 meters, so that the massif only rises about 2000 m above the surrounding area.
mythology
The mountain is the most important sacred mountain in Eastern Tibet.
According to tradition, the mountain god Make Pomra has his residence on the main peak of the Mach Kangri . He is considered one of the most important mountain deities in Tibet and was integrated into the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon. His full name is Amnye Magyal Chenpo Pomra ("the great ancestor Ma-King Pomra"), he is one of the most important Tibetan mountain deities. Because of its special holiness, the mountain is respectfully addressed as Amnyemachen.
In the beliefs of Tibetan Buddhism, the deity lives in a mighty crystal palace, the foundation walls of which extend far down into the earth and the towers of which rise to the sun and moon. The horse Droshur carries the god with wind speed to all parts of the world. The sons and daughters of Amnye Make live on another 18 glaciated peaks above 5000 and 6000 meters respectively. The antagonist of the beneficial Amnye making is the demonic Amnye Nyenchen .
Believers of the Bon religion refer to the patron god as Magyal Pomra ; for them he is one of the four great Nyen , their mountain deities. He rides a lion or a horse.
According to legend, King Gesar's miracle sword lies in the mountain , which will only reappear when King Gesar is reborn as King of Shambhala and defeats evil on earth. This also gave it a special meaning among the former warlike equestrian nomads Gologs.
literature
- A. Gruschke: The Cultural Monuments of Tibet's Outer Provinces: Amdo . Volume 1. The Qinghai Part of Amdo . Bangkok 2001, Lamaist Sites of the Amny Make Region (Golog), p. 73-90 .
- Andreas Gruschke : The holy places of the Tibetans. Myths and legends from Kailash to Shambhala (= Diederichs Yellow Row . DG137). Munich 1997.
- There She Stands . In: Time Magazine . April 26, 1948 ( time.com ).
- Galen Rowell: On and around Anyemaqen . In: The American Alpine Club (Ed.): American Alpine Journal (AAJ) . 1982, p. 88 ff . (English, report of the first ascent).
- Sir Francis Younghusband , George Pereira: Peking to Lhasa; The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire Made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira . Constable and Company, London 1925.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ref. Galen Rowell: On and around Anyemaqen. 1982.
- ^ The Function of Mountains . In: Time Magazine , April 12, 1948.
- ↑ The Greatest Mass on Earth. Flying Man's Search For a Mountain Higher than Everest . (PDF) In: Children's Newspaper , March 27, 1948, lookandlearn.com
- ↑ Gruschke 1997, p. 92.
- ↑ Gruschke 1997, p. 61.
- ↑ Gruschke 1997, p. 57.
- ↑ Gruschke 1997, p. 60.