Luqu County
ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། · 碌曲县 | |
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 Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Taktsang Lhamo Monastery) | |
.png) Luqu County (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu | |
  Luqu  Luqu | |
| Coordinates (Luqu government): 34°35′27″N 102°29′23″E / 34.5909°N 102.4896°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Gansu |
| Autonomous prefecture | Gannan |
| County seat | Lhamo (Langmusi) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5,298.6 km2 (2,045.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 35,871 |
| • Density | 6.8/km2 (18/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 747200 |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 碌曲县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 碌曲縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Luqu County (Chinese: 碌曲县, Tibetan: ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།) is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the southeast and Qinghai to the west. Its postal code is 717200, and in 1999 its population was 30,039 people.[3] The word "Luqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Tao River.
Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Ganden Shedrub Pekar Drolwailing), a Gelug monastery located in Lhamo (Langmusi), was founded in 1748. It became the seat of the Kirti incarnation line.[4][5]
- ^ "甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报" (in Chinese). Government of Gannan Prefecture. 2021-05-27.
- ^ "klu chu rdzong. TBRC Resource ID G2201". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
- ^ China Historical GIS
- ^ "stag tshang lha mo dgon, TBRC Resource ID G3278". Buddhist Digital Resource Center. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
(also called: stag tshang lha mo dgon, lha mo dgon, stag tshang lha mo gser khri dgon, dga' ldan bshad sgrub pad dkar grol ba'i gling, stag tshang lha mo gse khri dgon dga' ldan bshad sgrub pad dkar grol ba'i gling, 郎木寺, 噶丹雪珠贝噶卓卫林, langmu si)
- ^ "Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-10-05.