Tawang
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| State : | Arunachal Pradesh | ||
| District : | Tawang | ||
| Location : | 27 ° 35 ' N , 91 ° 52' E | ||
| Height : | 2669 m | ||
| Residents : | 11,202 (2011) | ||
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Tawang ( Tibetan རྟ་ དབང༌ Wylie rta dbang ) is a place in the west of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh not far from the border with Bhutan and China . It has a population of around 11,000 (2011 census) and is the administrative seat of the Tawang district .
Located at almost 3000 meters above sea level, Tawang is known for its 400-year-old Lama monastery Galden Namgyal Lhatse (Tibetan. རྟ་ དབང་ དགའ་ ལྡན་ རྣམ་ རྒྱལ་ ལྷ་ རྩེ །, rta dbang dga 'ldan rnam rgyal lha rtse ). It is considered to be the largest Buddhist monastery in India today. In 1683 the sixth Dalai Lama Tshangyang Gyatsho was born in Tawang .
The mountain town near the border with Tibet is strategically important from a military point of view, as it offers quick access to the northeast Indian Assam plain. It was occupied by Chinese troops on October 23, 1962 during the Indo-Chinese War .
From the perspective of the People's Republic of China, Tawang ( 达 旺镇 , Dáwàng Zhèn ) is a large municipality in Cona County in the Shannan administrative district in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
Web links
- Tawang Monastery multilingual website