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Ü-Tsang (དབུས་གཙང་། Wylie; dbus gtsang) is one of the three Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the north-east, and Kham in the east. The region of Ngari in the north-west was incorporated into Ü-Tsang after the Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War.
Central Tibetan, also known as Dbus, Ü or Ü-Tsang, is the most widely spoken Tibetic language and the basis of Standard Tibetan. Dbus and Ü are forms of the same name. Dbus is a transliteration of the name in Tibetan script, དབུས་, whereas Ü is the pronunciation of the same in Lhasa dialect, [wy˧˥˧ʔ] (or [y˧˥˧ʔ]).
Together with Tsang (གཙང་, gtsang), it forms Central Tibet Ü-Tsang (དབུས་གཙང་, dbus gtsang), which is one of the three Tibetan regions or cholka (cholka-sum). The other two cholka are Kham ( ཁམས་ , khams ) (Dotod) and Amdo ( ཨ༌མདོ ; a mdo ) (Domed).
Ü-Tsang (Tib. དབུས་གཙང་, Wyl. dbus gtsang), or Central and Western Tibet, is one of the three major provinces of Tibet, the other two being Kham and Amdo. Ü-Tsang was formed by the merging of two earlier power centers: Ü (Tib. དབུས་, dbus) in central Tibet, and Tsang (Tib. གཙང་, gtsang) in the 17th century.
Ü-Tsang (Tib. དབུས་གཙང་, Wyl. dbus gtsang), or Central and Western Tibet, is one of the three major provinces of Tibet, the other two being Kham and Amdo. Ü-Tsang was formed by the merging of two earlier power centers: Ü (Tib. དབུས་, dbus) in central Tibet, and Tsang (Tib. གཙང་, gtsang) in the 17th century.
This chapter attempts to locate the Madmen of Ü and Tsang in their historical moment.
This chapter explores the effects the Madmen of Ü and Tsang’s adoption of their distinctive lifestyle had on their standing in the eyes of the broader Tibetan public of their day, with special attention being paid to the means through which information about the madmen circulated.
