Tashigang, Ngari Prefecture
Tashigang
བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་་ | |
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| Zhaxigang Village | |
| Coordinates: 32°30′35″N 79°40′34″E / 32.50972°N 79.67611°E | |
| Country | China |
| Region | Tibet |
| Prefecture | Ngari Prefecture |
| County | Gar County |
| Postal code | 859000 |
| Area code | 0897 |
| Zhaxigang | |||||||
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| Chinese | 扎西崗村 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 扎西岗村 | ||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhā xī gǎng cūn | ||||||
| Literal meaning | "Tashigang Village" | ||||||
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Tashigang (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, Wylie: bkra shis sgang, THL: tra shi gang, transl. "auspicious hillock"), with a Chinese spelling Zhaxigang (Chinese: 扎西崗村; pinyin: Zhā xī gǎng cūn), is a village in the Gar County of the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet. The village forms the central district of the Zhaxigang Township. It houses an ancient monastery dating to the 11th century.