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The Kailash Range, Kailas Range, Gangdisi Mountains, Gangdese Range or Gangdisê Range, is a mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region. [1] Geography. Map including Gangdise Shan (labeled as KANG-TI-SSU SHAN (KAILAS RANGE)) (ATC, 1971).
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Gangdise Range is an important geographical boundary between the north and the south of the Tibetan Plateau, as well as the main watershed between the outflowing water system of the Indian Ocean in Tibet and the inflowing water system in northern Tibet. The Gangdise Mountains start from the Sassel Ridge in the southeast of the Karakoram Range in th...
The Gangdise Mountains began to uplift around the middle of the Cretaceous and then rose strongly after the early Eocene. It is believed that the Gangdise Mountains are the result of the collision, extrusion, fracture, and folding of the Indian block and Asian block in the mid-to-late Eocene, and the suture line between the two blocks is in the sou...
The southern side of the Gangdise Mountains is commonly known as southern Tibet, where the climate is cool and slightly dry. The Yarlung Zangbo River Valley below 4,000 meters above sea level is shrub grassland, and the higher areas are subalpine grassland. This area has vast grasslands and concentrated arable land, also the region with a concentra...
Gangdise has been a holy place of worship and pilgrimage for people from all over Central and South Asia since ancient times. In Tibetan Buddhism, Gangdise Mountain is a sacred mountain. According to Tantric Buddhism, it symbolizes Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi; some Buddhists believe that the Shakyamuni Buddha resides on this mountain, accompanied...
In the history of cultural exchanges between the East and the West, Mount Gangdise occupies a unique position. In ancient times, there was a famous trade route leading to Central Asia and Europe, which became the second ancient road connecting Eurasia, also known as the "Musk Road". This commercial road not only connected Eastern and Western econom...
There are five routes to get to Gangdise Mountain: 1. Indian pilgrimage route: Lipulekh - Taklakot (Purang) - Darchen. 2. Nepali pilgrimage route: Kathmandu- Nepalgunj- Simikot- Hilasa(involved in 3 flights)- Darchen / Kathmandu - Zhangmu(only Gyirong available now) - Saga - Darchen(overland). 3. Ngari North route: Lhatse- Tsochen - Gertse - Gakyi ...
Gangdise Shan. The mountain range Gangdise Shan lies between the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) and the Tibetan high plateau, the Chang Tang. It stretches about 2000 km in east-west direction and covers about 200 km in south-north direction.
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The Trans himalaya (also spelled Trans-Himalaya), or " Gangdise – Nyenchen Tanglha range " (Chinese: 冈底斯-念青唐古拉山脉; pinyin: Gāngdǐsī-Niànqīngtánggǔlā Shānmài), is a 1,600-kilometre-long (990 mi) mountain range in China, India and Nepal, extending in a west–east direction parallel to the main Himalayan range. [1 ...
The Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains have an average latitude of 30°30'N and a longitude between 90°E and 97°E. Together with the Gangdise Shan located further west, it forms the Transhimalaya [note 1] which runs parallel to the Himalayas north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.
The Kailash Range, Kailas Range, Gangdisi Mountains, Gangdese Range or Gangdisê Range, is a mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau in Tibet and the Tibet Autonomous Region. [1] See also: Geography of Ladakh and Geography of Tibet.
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In the west Gangdise Shan connects with the Kunlun Shan and in the east it becomes the Nyangchen Tangla Shan. To be 100% correct, it should be said that Loinbo Kangri is part of the Lunggar Shan mountain range, a sub-range to Gangdise, in which it's the most southernmost peak.
