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Taktser or Tengster (, ''Place on the Heights''; )〔Thubten Jigme Norbu, Heinrich Harrer, ''Tibet is my country'', London: Wisdom Publications, 1986, p. 21 : "The meaning of 'Tengtser' is 'place on the heights' ; that is to say something like 'mountain village', or 'upper village'.")〕 is a village in the Western Chinese province of Qinghai (or the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo). Taktser was originally an area of pasture land for the larger village of Balangtsa, about two hours walk away in the valley. Cattle were brought to feed on the fertile grazing lands in summer, which caused them to give very rich milk. Later, when people realized that this was also a good place to farm, permanent houses were built, and the village comprised about thirty cottages by the time Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was born.〔Thubten Jigme Norbu, Heinrich Harrer, ''Tibet is my country'', op. cit., p. 22.〕 The village is on the route from Xining, which was the seat of local Chinese government administration, to Labrang Tashi Khyi, the largest monastery in the area after the famous Kumbum Monastery.〔''Tibet is My Country: Autobiography of Thubten Jigme Norbu, Brother of the Dalai Lama as told to Heinrich Harrer'', p. 21. First published in German in 1960. English translation by Edward Fitzgerald, published 1960. Reprint, with updated new chapter, (1986): Wisdom Publications, London. ISBN 0-86171-045-2.〕 Taktser is the Tibetan name of the village of Hongya (红崖村 ''Hóngyá Cūn'', ''Hongaizi'' in the local dialect), together with 13 other villages forming the Shihuiyao Township (石灰窑乡), of Ping'an County, in Haidong Prefecture. Despite it being under centuries of Chinese-speaking environment, it still belongs to the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo. Taktser is not, as it is usually taken to be, in the proximity of the Kumbum Monastery, rather it is approximately east of the monastery, and around southwest of the town of Ping'an (平安镇, Tibetan: ''Bayan khar''), which is also the seat of the government for the county of the same name. ==Population== Although the name of Taktser is a reminder of the times when the earliest inhabitants were Tibetan tribes, the Huis have been the main ethnic group in the area since the Qing Dynasty (1644).〔(The 14th Dalai Lama's road to treason (1) ), ''People's Daily Online'', April 23rd, 2008.〕 In 1935, the village, then under the control of Hui Chinese (Muslim) warlord Ma Bufang of the Republic of China (Ma clique), consisted of 17 households, 15 of which were Tibetan.〔Thomas Laird, ''The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama'', 2007, p. 262.〕 In 1985, there were 40 families 〔Cf (Qinghai Province, Surrounded by Natural Beauty ) ; figure taken from the ''Chinese Statistical Yearbook 1985''.〕 and in 2002 the figure rose to 50.〔John Gittings, (Half a century of exile cannot crush Tibetan dreams ), ''guardian.co.uk'', February 8th, 2003.〕 In 2009, the village numbered 256 inhabitants. Over 70% of the 50 families have a television set and a land-line telephone. The village also features 10 mobile phones, 16 motorbikes, and one automobile, but is still isolated from the Internet.〔Yu Zheng, (An enigmatic paradox - How a layman sees the Dalai Lama ), ''China View'', Marc 13th, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Taktser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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