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.
Baiyü County 白玉县 · དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང Baiyu, Pelyül | |
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Palyul Monastery in Baiyü | |
Location of Baiyü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
Baiyü Location in Sichuan Baiyü Baiyü (China) | |
| Coordinates: 31°13′N 98°49′E / 31.217°N 98.817°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Garzê |
| County seat | Zugzhün (Jianshe) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 10,386 km2 (4,010 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,012 m (9,882 ft) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
| • Total | 59,524 |
| • Density | 5.7/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 白玉县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 白玉縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Administrative divisions edit
Baiyü County is divided into 4 towns and 12 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| 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 edit
| Climate data for Baiyü, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| 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[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Monasteries edit
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.[4]
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.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7][8]
Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa (1901-1975) entered Tromge Monastery at age 11.[9]
Tromge Monastery School was established in the 2000s to provide a traditional education to about two dozen students.[10]
References edit
- ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ "Nyoshul Jonpalung Monastery". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ "Adzom Gar". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ Gardner, Alexander (2009). "The First Adzom Drukpa, Drodul Pawo Dorje". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ "Tromge Gon". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ "Chagdud Gonpa – Associates". chagdudgonpa.org. 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ Dorje, Sangngak (2013). "Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
- ^ "Tromge Monastery School | Chagdud Gonpa Amrita Seattle". amritaseattle.org. Retrieved 2017-08-05.