# Baiyü County

Baiyü County or Pelyül (Tibetan: དཔལ་ཡུལ།, Chinese: 白玉县) is a county in far western Sichuan, China on the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Administrative divisions

Baiyü County is divided into 4 towns and 12 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Zugzhün Town (Jianshe) | 建设镇 | Jiànshè Zhèn | འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'dzugs skrun grong rdal | 513331100 |
| Acab Town (Acha) | 阿察镇 | Āchá Zhèn | ཨ་ཚབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | a tshab grong rdal | 513331101 |
| Horbo Town (Hepo) | 河坡镇 | Hépō Zhèn | ཧོར་སྤོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hor spo grong rdal | 513331102 |
| Gajê Town (Gaiyu) | 盖玉镇 | Gàiyù Zhèn | སྒ་རྗེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sga rje grong rdal | 513331103 |
| Townships ||||||
| Zhi'gyü Township (Jinsha) | 金沙乡 | Jīnshā Xiāng | འབྲི་རྒྱུད་ཤང་། | 'bri rgyud shang | 513331200 |
| Ronggêb Township (Ronggai) | 绒盖乡 | Rónggài Xiāng | རོང་འགེབས་ཤང་། | rong 'gebs shang | 513331201 |
| Zangdo Township (Zomdo, Zhangdu) | 章都乡 | Zhāngdū Xiāng | གཙང་མདོ་ཤང་། | gtsang mdo shang | 513331202 |
| Barong Township (Barrong, Marong) | 麻绒乡 | Máróng Xiāng | འབར་རོང་ཤང་། | 'bar rong shang | 513331203 |
| Ragkyab Township (Rejia) | 热加乡 | Rèjiā Xiāng | རག་ཁྱབ་ཤང་། | rag khyab shang | 513331205 |
| Dêrlung Township (Denglong) | 登龙乡 | Dēnglóng Xiāng | གཏེར་ལུང་ཤང་། | gter lung shang | 513331206 |
| Zinkog Township (Zengke) | 赠科乡 | Zèngkē Xiāng | འཛིན་ཁོག་ཤང་། | 'dzin khog shang | 513331207 |
| Barqung Township (Maqiong) | 麻邛乡 | Máqióng Xiāng | འབར་ཆུང་ཤང་། | 'bar chung shang | 513331209 |
| Nyamgyi Township (Liaoxi) | 辽西乡 | Liáoxī Xiāng | མཉམ་སྐྱིད་ཤང་། | mnyam skyid shang | 513331210 |
| Damtar Township (Nata) | 纳塔乡 | Nàtǎ Xiāng | འདམ་ཐར་ཤང་། | 'dam thar shang | 513331211 |
| Anzi Township | 安孜乡 | Ānzī Xiāng | ཨ་འཛི་ཤང་། | a 'dzi shang | 513331212 |
| Samar Township (Shama) | 沙马乡 | Shāmǎ Xiāng | ས་དམར་ཤང་། | sa dmar shang | 513331214 |

## Climate

Climate data for Baiyü, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.1 (73.6) | 23.7 (74.7) | 29.0 (84.2) | 30.1 (86.2) | 31.3 (88.3) | 35.4 (95.7) | 35.6 (96.1) | 32.7 (90.9) | 31.4 (88.5) | 29.0 (84.2) | 24.4 (75.9) | 21.2 (70.2) | 35.6 (96.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.1 (50.2) | 12.5 (54.5) | 15.2 (59.4) | 18.3 (64.9) | 22.2 (72.0) | 24.5 (76.1) | 25.2 (77.4) | 24.9 (76.8) | 22.6 (72.7) | 18.5 (65.3) | 14.3 (57.7) | 10.4 (50.7) | 18.2 (64.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −0.7 (30.7) | 2.3 (36.1) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.0 (48.2) | 12.8 (55.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 16.2 (61.2) | 15.7 (60.3) | 13.2 (55.8) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.2 (37.8) | −0.9 (30.4) | 8.4 (47.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −8.9 (16.0) | −5.8 (21.6) | −1.8 (28.8) | 1.9 (35.4) | 5.8 (42.4) | 9.5 (49.1) | 10.7 (51.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 7.9 (46.2) | 2.4 (36.3) | −4.3 (24.3) | −8.9 (16.0) | 1.6 (34.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −18.5 (−1.3) | −15.8 (3.6) | −11.7 (10.9) | −7.1 (19.2) | −3.7 (25.3) | 1.2 (34.2) | 2.7 (36.9) | 0.9 (33.6) | −1.5 (29.3) | −7.1 (19.2) | −12.8 (9.0) | −18.6 (−1.5) | −18.6 (−1.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.3 (0.05) | 3.3 (0.13) | 12.4 (0.49) | 35.9 (1.41) | 55.6 (2.19) | 124.7 (4.91) | 144.9 (5.70) | 125.2 (4.93) | 101.8 (4.01) | 33.6 (1.32) | 4.9 (0.19) | 1.1 (0.04) | 644.7 (25.37) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.2 | 3.4 | 7.0 | 12.6 | 16.5 | 21.8 | 21.4 | 18.8 | 18.5 | 10.9 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 136.2 |
| Average snowy days | 2.9 | 6.6 | 7.5 | 3.0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 27 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 35 | 42 | 51 | 56 | 67 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 66 | 49 | 40 | 55 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 170.2 | 152.6 | 165.1 | 176.1 | 198.9 | 185.2 | 190.0 | 178.9 | 169.4 | 171.6 | 174.9 | 180.1 | 2,113 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 53 | 48 | 44 | 45 | 47 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 46 | 49 | 56 | 58 | 48 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Monasteries

The Palyul Monastery is located in Baiyü County as is the Yarchen Monastery and Katok Monastery. Nyoshul Jonpalung Monastery (སྨྱོ་ཤུལ་ལྗོན་པ་ལུང་དགོན།; 辽西寺 / 辽西圆林; Liáoxī Sì / Liáoxī yuánlín), founded by Khenpo Ngaga (1879-1941) in 1910, is located in the county's Dzin Valley of Tromtar. It is a Nyingma monastery which is considered a branch of Katok.
Adzom Gön Monastery (Anzom, Anzom Chogar, 'od gsal theg mchog gling, Osel Tekchok Ling, Osal Tegchogling) is another branch of Katok in the Tromtar (romkok (khrom tar / khrom khog) region.
The founder, Adzom Drukpa Drondul Pawo Dorje (a 'dzom 'brug pa 'gro 'dul dpa' bo rdo rje) was born in 1842 in Tashi Dungkargang in the Tromtar region.
Tromge Monastery (Tromge Gon khrom dge dgon; 昌根寺; Chānggēn Sì) was founded in 1275 in the Tromtar Valley. It is a branch of Katok Monastery.
Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa (1901-1975) entered Tromge Monastery at age 11.
Tromge Monastery School was established in the 2000s to provide a traditional education to about two dozen students.