page_title: Tingri County
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Tingri County / Transport
caption_attribution_description: English: Padampa Sanggye , eleventh century Zhije teacher in Tibetan Buddhism
context_page_description: Tingri County or Dhringgri County, is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
  The county comprises the upper valley of the Bum-chu or Arun River, with the valleys of its tributaries plus the valleys of the Rongshar Tsangpo and the Lapchi Gang Tsanpo which flow south into Nepal. It is bordered on the south by the main range of the Himalayas including Mount Everest, Makalu and Cho Oyu. The present county administration is located at Shelkar, about 87 km east of Tingri.
  It is one of the four counties that comprise the Qomolangma National Nature Preserve.
context_section_description: China National Highway 318
caption: Dampa Sangye, author of the Dingri One Hundred [4][5][6] and founder of Dingri Langkhor [7]
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