Tradün
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Tibetan script :
སྐྲ་ བདུན་
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Wylie transliteration : skra bdun
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Pronunciation in IPA : [
ʈʂáptỹ̀ ]
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Official transcription of the PRCh : Zhadun
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THDL transcription : Tradün
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Other spellings: Tradum, Tradon, Tadum, Zhadun, Zhadün, Zhongba
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Traditional :
扎 東 寺
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Simplified :
扎 东 寺
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Pinyin : Zhadong Si
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Tradün Tse ( Tib .: skra bdun rtse ; literally: "Seven Hair Monastery", officially Zhadün ) is a small monastery that was founded during the reign of King Songtsen Gampo (7th century). It is located in the administrative area of Tangxi Village (唐西 村), which is part of Labranggosa Township in Zhongba County, Xigazê Government District in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .
The largely abandoned small settlement at the monastery was until 1960 the capital of the Zhadün (Tradün) district in today's Xigazê administrative district in Tibet. Because of its altitude, the district was almost exclusively populated by ranchers. After 1960, he was in the circle Zhongba converted and also called "Zhongba", built as the capital of a new settlement, not far from the monastery. The first foreigners to visit Tradün were the Englishmen CG Ryder and Cecil Rawling (1904) and shortly afterwards Sven Hedin . Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter stayed in Tradün for several months. The ancient monastery housed seven monks at the time of Heinrich Harrer's stay. Its inventory was destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. All figures of saints and gods found today were rebuilt after 1980.
Tradün was one of the most important transshipment points in western Tibet for the salt trade between the nomads in the north and Nepal in the south. Nevertheless, the settlement at the monastery consisted of only about 20 houses at the time of Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter's stay.
Today the houses mainly only serve as winter quarters for a few nomads and are largely empty in summer. One of the buildings was spruced up as a showpiece for passing tourists.
gallery
The Tradün Tse monastery.
Tradün Tse Monastery: Entrance to the main temple.
Protective deity in the main temple of the Tradün Tse monastery.
Main statue of the Tradün Tse monastery: Padmasambhava.
literature
- Heinrich Harrer: Seven years in Tibet . Vienna 1952.
- Karl-Heinz Everding: Tibet. Lamaistic monastery culture, nomadic ways of life and everyday rural life on the roof of the world . Dumont Reise Verlag, 2009.
- CG Rawling: The Great Plateau. Being an Account of the Exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905 . Dumont Travel Publishing House, London 1905.
- Sven Hedin: Transhimalaya. Discoveries and adventures in Tibet . Leipzig 1909.
Coordinates: 29 ° 39 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 84 ° 10 ′ 30 ″ E