0118 - Glimpses of Ancient Tibetan Town - Xigaze. Xigaze, Tibet's second la...Back

Glimpses of Ancient Tibetan Town - Xigaze. Xigaze, Tibet's second largest and 1000-year-old city west of Lhasa has witnessed in recent years a boom in its diversified economy. The success of the political, economic and cultural center of Rear Tibet, with a population of 30,000, has a lot to do with the earnest implementation of improved economic and national policies. Lying at the junction of the Yarlung Zangbo River and the Nyang Qu River, Xigaze has a famous monastery, Trashilhunpo, where the fourth Raineen (a leader of Lamaism in Tibet) lived in ...