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Tongkor Monastery (also known as Ganden Chokhorling and Dangar Gompa) is located in Zithang, Garzê County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, not far to the east of Qinghai Lake. It is about southwest of Tongkor Town (Ch. Huangyuan) which is itself about equidistant between Dabzhi (Ch. Haiyan) to the northwest and about from Xining, the provincial capital in the southeast. It is northeast of the Nyima Dawa La "Sun and Moon Pass", , over which the ancient trade route (now Route 214) from Xining crossed south to Lhasa.〔Dorje (1999), pp. 535-536.〕 ==The town== The American adventurer and diplomat, W. W. Rockhill, refers to the town as Tankar (''Tan-ka-erh''), but adds this note:
Rockhill reports that late in the 19th century there was a massacre of nearly 10,000 Muslims around the town of "Tankar", but there were still "not more" than 10,000 Chinese and Tibetans in the town; with a "nominal force of 200 men under a colonel". Muslims were no longer allowed entry.〔Rockhill (1891), p. 109.〕 The town was walled and was an important trade centre. The journey from Tongkor to Lhasa was usually sixty to seventy days.〔Rockhill (1891), pp. 133-134.〕 Rockhill mentions that its importance as a trade centre had diminished since the recent war.〔Rockhill (1891), p. 110.〕 Items brought from Lhasa included woollen cloth of various colours and qualities, incense sticks, the best quality ''K'a ch'é shakama'' saffron from Kashmir, Buddhist books, dried dates and brown sugar from India, cowries, disks of chank-shells and amber for ornaments, furs and a few other items. Among the most valuable items brought by Tibetans or, more frequently, Nepalese, are conch shells with their whorls turning to the right. They are highly valued and used in the monasteries as trumpets (Tib. ''Yä-chyil dung-kar'') and are classed among the jewels. One of them could sell for from four to five hundred taels. The Chinese also placed a high value on them. A few traders from Khotan and Kashgar visited each year, usually in the autumn, bringing Khotan rugs, Hami raisins, dried melons and a few other things of little value. The exports contain goods of much higher value, including mules and horses, satin, silks and gold brocades, chinaware, and so on.〔Rockhill (1891), pp. 110-1111.〕 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「Tongkor Monastery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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