page_title: Chengguan, Chamdo
section_title: Galden Jampaling Monastery
hierarchical_section_title: Chengguan, Chamdo / Galden Jampaling Monastery
caption_attribution_description: བོད་ཡིག: འབུམ་མཚོའི་གསོལ་མགྲོན་ཁང༌།中文: 昌都城关莽错湖宾馆English: Bumcoi Hotel (or Bumcoi-Hotel, 100000 Lakes Hotel), Chamdo, Tibet
context_page_description: Chengguan synonymously referred to as Chamdo or Qamdo is a major town in the historical region of Kham in the eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The seat of Karub District and Chamdo Prefecture, it is Tibet's third largest city after Lhasa and Shigatse with a population of 45,861 in 2010. It is located about 600 km east of Lhasa. By road, the distance is 1,120 km via the southern route or 1,030 km via the northern route. It is at an altitude of 3,230 m at the confluence of the rivers Za Qu and Ngom Qu which form the Lancang River.
  Historically, Chamdo was a hub of the Tea Horse Road, leading from Sichuan to Bengal via the Nathu La pass. At the turn of the 20th century it had a population of about 12,000, a quarter of whom were monks.
context_section_description: Chengguan was visited by Je 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 Chengguan. It now houses about 800 monks.
caption: Mang Cuo Lake Hotel in Chengguan
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