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» This article refers to the town of Chamdo. For other uses, see Qamdo.
Chamdo (
Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་;
Wylie: chab-mdo; officially:
Qamdo;
Chinese: 昌都;
Pinyin: Chāngdū), population about 80,000 in
Kham in the eastern
Tibet Autonomous Region, is Tibet's third largest city (after
Lhasa and
Shigatse). It is located about 480km from
Lhasa, and is at an altitude of about 3,600 metres (11,811 ft).
At the turn of the 20th century it had a population of about 12,000 with about a quarter of that monks. Chamdo, and the region around, it's the centre for the fierce
Khampa tribesmen.
The Galden Jampaling Monastery
Chamdo was visited by
Tsongkhapa in 1373 who suggested a monastery be built there.
Galden Jampaling Monastery was constructed between 1436 and 1444 by a disciple of Tsongkhapa, Jansem Sherab Zangpo. It is also known as the
Changbalin or
Qiangbalin Si Monastery. At its height it contained five main temples and housed some 2,500 monks. It was destroyed in 1912 but the main hall (which was used as a prison) and two other buildings survived, and it was rebuilt in 1917 after the Tibetan army retook Chamdo. It now houses about 800 monks.
Occupation of Chamdo in 1950
The occupation of Chamdo by the 40,000 man army of the
People's Republic of China on October 19, 1950 served as an important precursor to the eventual defeat of the Lhasa government. Chamdo's governor at the time of the occupation was
Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, who later became an official in the government of the People's Republic of China. The previous governor of Chamdo was
Lhalu Tsewang Dorje.
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