Yushu (city)

Location of Yushu City in Qinghai

Xia Laxiu village with Rabshi Lungshö monastery

The city of Yushu ( Tibetan ཡུས་ ཧྲུའ ུ , transcription after Wylie yus hru'u ; Chinese  玉樹 市  /  玉树 市 , Pinyin Yùshù shì ) is an independent city in the Tibetan Yushu Autonomous District in the Chinese province of Qinghai .

The seat of the government of the 13,462 km² district is Gyêgu (Tib .: skye rgu mdo / Jiégǔ Zhèn 结 古镇 ), a large community (zhen) that is gradually growing into a city. With around 60–70,000 inhabitants (including unregistered residents), it is the largest town in an area (Yushu County), the area of ​​which is almost the size of Great Britain. The great earthquake of Yushu on April 14, 2010, however, put most of the city in ruins.

Gyêgu Monastery (Chinese Jiegu si )

Its most famous sights include the temple of Princess Wencheng ( Tib.Nampar Namdze , Chin. Wencheng gongzhu miao ), the Sakyapa Monastery Döndrub Ling of Kyegu Do ( Chin.Jiegu si ) and Gyanak Mani in Xinzhai , all in the immediate vicinity of the Little town. Other important monastic institutions in the district are Domkar Gompa and Tranggu Gompa (both Karma Kagyu orders), Rabshi Lungshö in the village of Xia Laxiu and Surmang Dütsithil in the extreme southeast of the district. The latter is the home monastery of the famous in the West Lama Chogyam Trungpa .

Administrative structure

At the community level, the district is made up of four street districts , two large communities and six communities . These are:

• Gyêgu结 古 街道street district
• Xihang Street District西 杭 街道
• Zaxike扎西科 街道street district
• Xinzhai Street District 新 寨 街道

• Greater community Longbao隆宝镇
• Greater community Xialaxiu下拉秀镇

• Community Zhoinmda仲达乡
• Community Baitang巴塘乡
• Community Surmangqungwa小苏莽乡
• Municipality Shang Raqug上拉秀乡
• Haxü municipality 哈 秀 乡
• Parish of A'cho安 冲 乡

See also

• 2010 Yushu earthquake
• Benchen monastery

Footnotes

1. ↑ Yushu Earthquake Relief: Yushu Update Information as of April 16, 12:24 am local time 4/16 ( memento of the original from April 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 16, 2010)  

Coordinates: 32 ° 50 '  N , 96 ° 45'  E