Nyainqên Kawagarbo, Deqen, Yunnan Province, China – 神 山 卡 瓦 格
Deqen County 德 欽 縣, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪 慶 藏 族 自 治 州 in Yunnan Province 雲 南 省
Diqing is in the northwest of Yunnan and overseas the prefecture-city of Shangri La City 香 格 里 拉 市, or called Zhongdian 中 甸, and 2 counties; namely, Weixi Lisu Autonomous County 维 西 傈 僳 族 自 治 縣, and Deqen or Deqin County.
Deqen has a heritage from the southern Kham 喀 木 or 康 區.
Feilai Si 飛 來 寺 in Deqen County 德 欽 縣
Feilai Si, Naka Zhashi or Trashi Gompa in Tibetan, is 10 km further from Deqen on the National Highway 214. In China, some places are named after their temples and Feilai Si is one of them.
Feilai Si is where we shall see the majestic Kawagarbo 卡 瓦 格 博, which lies between Deqen, and Zogang 左 貢 and Zayu 察 隅 in the Tibet Autonomous Region 西 藏 自 治 區 to the west.
Getting There and Away
The gateway to Feilai Si 飛 來 寺 in Deqen County 德 欽 縣 is Shangri La City 香 格 里 拉 市 or called Zhongdian 中 甸.
The bus trip is a memorable one and reaches the highest point at 4292 m above sea level. I would include this ride with others in a later video to showcase the scenic routes along the Three Parallel Rivers 三 江 併 流 in Yunnan Province 雲 南 省.
Kawagarbo 卡 瓦 格 博, the Sacred Mountain of Tibetan Buddhism
Kawagarbo, Khawa Karpo or Kawagebo, is also known as Meili Snowy Mountain 梅 里 雪 山, a small ridge of the extensive Hengduan Mountain Range 横 斷 山 脉, which runs north-south skirting the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.
Peak at 6740 m, Kawagarbo is said to be second only to Mount Kailash or Kang Rinpoche 岡 仁 波 齊 峰 in the western Tibet Autonomous Region 西 藏 自 治 區, as the most Sacred Mountain of Tibetan Buddhism.
Summit at 6638 m, Mount Kailash is the venerated mountain of 4 religions, namely Bon 苯 教, Buddhism 佛 教, Hinduism 印 度 教, and Jainism 耆 那 教.
The impassable Kawagarbo divides the upper reaches of Nujiang 怒 江 or the Salween River 薩 爾 溫 江 in Burma 緬 甸 or Myanmar, and Lancang Jiang 瀾 滄 江 or the Mekong River 湄 公 河 in Vietnam.
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Kawagarbo 卡 瓦 格 博 or Taizi 13 Peaks 太 子 十 三 峰
Kawagarbo is commonly known as Taizi 13 Peaks, where Taizi means Prince. The 13 peaks from south to north are :
1 … Mianzimu Peak 缅 茨 姆 峰 – 6054 m *
2 … Jiawaren-an Peak 吉 娃 仁 安 峰 – 5471 m *
3 … Baowuduji Peak 包 烏 杜 吉 峰 – no record of height
4 … Bujiong Songjie Wuxue Peak 布 迥 松 階 吾 學 峰 – 6000 m *
5 … Wugedong Peak 烏 格 冬 峰 – 6000m
6 … Pabanidingjiuzhao Peak 帕 巴 尼 頂 九 焯 峰 – 5880 m
7 … Badui Peak 八 堆 頂 峰 – 5157 m
8 … Kawagarbo Summit 卡 瓦 格 博 峰 – 6740 m *
9 … Shuolazanguimianbu Peak 說 拉 赞 歸 面 布 峰 – 5295 m
10 ... Zhandiwuxiu Peak 沾 迪 吾 修 峰 – 6365 m
11 … Nairidingka Peak 奶 日 頂 卡 峰 – 6379 m *
12 … Cuguilaka 粗 歸 腊 卡 – 5993 m
13 … Mangkuanglaka 芒 框 腊 卡 – 6400 m
* denotes those peaks that can be clearly identified in the video
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Mingyong Glacier 明 永 冰 川 – the lowest Glacier in China
From the summit of Kawagarbo 卡 瓦 格 博 at 6740 m, the Glacier runs a 12 km course down to below 2000 m and is exposed to monsoon weather with unstable snow condition that makes climbing almost impossible.
An avalanche on 3 Jan 1991 claimed 17 life of a joint-expedition by the Japanese and Chinese at an altitude of 5100 m.
No one has succeeded climbing Kawagarbo.
Today, climbing is banned.
According to traditional belief, any mortal reaching the summit would anger God, who would withdraw the blessing and disasters would come.
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Yunnan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:28 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Prehistory
00:03:07 1.2 Pre-Nanzhao period
00:06:10 1.3 Nanzhao period
00:11:11 1.4 Dali Kingdom
00:12:15 1.5 Ming and Qing dynasties
00:14:43 1.6 Post-Imperial
00:16:26 1.7 Naturalists
00:17:40 2 Geography
00:18:48 2.1 Geology
00:20:06 2.2 Paleontology
00:20:24 2.3 Climate
00:21:52 2.4 Topography
00:23:30 2.5 Borders
00:24:21 2.6 Lakes
00:25:14 2.7 Rivers
00:26:52 2.8 Biodiversity
00:29:28 2.9 Designation
00:30:19 2.10 Natural resources
00:32:09 2.10.1 Drought
00:32:41 3 Scenic areas
00:32:51 3.1 National parks
00:33:12 3.2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
00:33:48 4 Governance
00:33:56 4.1 Administrative divisions
00:34:37 4.1.1 Urban areas
00:34:45 4.2 Politics
00:38:28 5 Demographics
00:38:37 5.1 Ethnicity
00:40:34 5.2 Languages
00:42:05 5.3 Literacy
00:42:41 5.4 Religion
00:44:22 6 Agriculture
00:47:14 7 Economy
00:52:59 7.1 Economic and Technological Development Zones
00:58:04 8 Education
01:00:37 9 Health
01:00:57 9.1 HIV-AIDS
01:01:09 10 Transport
01:01:18 10.1 Railways
01:03:55 10.2 Burma Road
01:05:29 10.3 Highways
01:07:34 10.3.1 Expressways
01:08:57 10.4 Waterways
01:09:57 10.5 Airports
01:10:55 10.6 Bridges
01:11:44 10.7 Metro
01:12:02 11 Culture
01:13:08 11.1 Eighteen Oddities of Yunnan
01:13:17 11.2 Cuisine
01:13:25 11.3 Tea
01:13:53 11.4 Music
01:14:01 11.5 Chinese medicine
01:14:22 11.6 Tourism
01:17:53 11.7 Places of interest
01:18:29 11.8 Sport
01:18:55 12 See also
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of China. Located in Southwest China, the province spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 47.368 million (as of 2015). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, as well as the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys by as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, followed by the Ming dynasty.
From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.
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Yunnan
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Yunnan (云南) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan. The province borders the Chinese provinces Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the countries Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the northwest and low elevations in the southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province. In the west, the altitude can vary from the mountain peaks to river valleys as much as 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). Yunnan is rich in natural resources and has the largest diversity of plant life in China. Of the approximately 30,000 species of higher plants in China, Yunnan has perhaps 17,000 or more. Yunnan's reserves of aluminium, lead, zinc and tin are the largest in China, and there are also major reserves of copper and nickel.
The Han Empire first recorded diplomatic relations with the province at the end of the 2nd century BC. It became the seat of a Sino-Tibetan-speaking kingdom of Nanzhao in the 8th century AD. Nanzhao was multi-ethnic, but the elite most-likely spoke a northern dialect of Yi. The Mongols conquered the region in the 13th century, with local control exercised by warlords until the 1930s. From the Yuan dynasty onward, the area was part of a central-government sponsored population movement towards the southwestern frontier, with two major waves of migrants arriving from Han-majority areas in northern and southeast China. As with other parts of China's southwest, Japanese occupation in the north during World War II forced another migration of majority Han people into the region. These two waves of migration contributed to Yunnan being one of the most ethnically diverse provinces of China, with ethnic minorities accounting for about 34 percent of its total population. Major ethnic groups include Yi, Bai, Hani, Zhuang, Dai and Miao.