Pagri
Pagri , ( Tibetan ཕག་ རི , "pig mountain ", transcription after Wylie : phag ri , also Phagri ; Chinese 帕里 镇 , Pinyin Pàlǐ Zhèn ), is a large community in Yadong County (Dromo) in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It is an important trading center of southern Tibet and one of the highest places in the world. The place is 4300 m high at the foot of the Chomolhari in the Himalayas .
history
In 1774 the Scot entered George Bogle on the way to Samzhubzê and Zhaxilhünbo Pagri on behalf of the East India Company .
Thubten Ngödrub , the 14th State Oracle of the Dalai Lama , was born in Pagri in 1957 .
See also
literature
- Alastair Lamb (ed.): Bogle's Journals in Bhutan and Tibet. The Travels of George Bogle and Alexander Hamilton 1774-1777 ; Roxford Books, Hartingfordbury, Hertfordshire 2002
Web links
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Coordinates: 27 ° 43 ' N , 89 ° 9' E