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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHIGATSE

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 857 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHIGATSE , one of the largest towns in Tibet, next in importance to Lhasa, the
capital
 . The town, which is at the confluence of the Nyang chu with the Tsangpo, contains about 9000 in-habitants (exclusive of priests), and is about 4 m.
long
  by a m. broad. About r m. to the north-
east
  is situated a monastery called Konkalifig, whilst to the
south
 -west is the far-famed Tashilhunpo monastery, the residence of one of the
great
  high priests of Tibet, co-equal with the Dalai-Lama of Lhasa. Between the Tashilhunpo monastery and the city is the Thom or open market, where all the business of the place is daily trans-acted. A
wall
  about r m. in circumference surrounds the Tashilhunpo monastery, within which are numerous temples and houses, four of the larger temples being decorated with gilded spires. A
great
  wealth of jewels and precious metal is said to enrich the numerous idols of Tashilhunpo. The monastery maintains 3300 priests. The city is protected by a fort which stands on a low hill to the north-west, and a garrison of rood Tibetan soldiers is quartered here. The municipal government is in the hands of two depen assisted by
resident
  Jongpons. The soil around Shigatse is
rich
  and productive, the
elevation
  being between 11,000 and 12,000 ft. Shigatse lay to the west of the British route of advance on Lhasa in 1904, but it was visited by Captain Rawling on his way to open the market at Gartok.


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