Sa'gya

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ས་ སྐྱ་ རྫོང
Wylie transliteration :
sa skya rdzong
Official transcription of the PRCh :
Sa'gya
THDL transcription :
Sakya
Other spellings:
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Chinese name
Traditional :
薩迦 縣
Simplified :
萨迦 县
Pinyin :
Sàjiā Xiàn
Located in the administrative area of ​​the city of Xigazê

Sa'gya ( Tibetan ས་ སྐྱ་ རྫོང , transcription after Wylie : sa skya rdzong , also Sakya Dzong ) is a district in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . It is part of the city of Xigazê .

The Sakya Monastery is the main monastery of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism ( Vajrayana ), whose patriarchs controlled Tibet from the middle of the 13th century to the middle of the 14th century. Its unique library is considered "the second Dunhuang ".

Administrative structure

At the community level, the district consists of two large communities and nine communities . These are (pinyin / chin.)

  • Greater community Sajia萨迦镇
  • Greater community Jiding吉定镇

population

The population of the district in 1999 was 43,405 people.

Footnotes

  1. National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS

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Coordinates: 28 ° 56 '  N , 88 ° 26'  E