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The Tibetan Plateau is steeped in Buddhism, like here on the shores of the sacred lake Manasarovar here in Ngari མངའ་རིས། - Far West Tibet,
as in U དབུས་ - Central Tibet, Lhokha & Kongpo ལྷོ་ཁ། - Southern Tibet, Tsang གཙང་ & Lato - Western Tibet, Jangtang བྱང་ཐང་། - Northern Tibet, Kham ཁམས། - Eastern Tibet and Amdo & Gyarong ཨ་མདོ། & རྒྱལ་ རོང་ - Far East Tibet.

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Kyirong county in South Lato occupies the valleys of the Kyirong Tsangpo River (Trishuli) and its tributaries as well as the adjacent Gungtang-chu headwaters and the basin of lake Pelkhu Tso. To the south stradling the Tibet/Nepal border lie the mighty snow peaks of the Himalayan range: Ganesh Himal 7406 m, Langtang 7232 m and Shishapangma 8012 m. Further north there are trails crossing the high watershed passes into North Lato,and the Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ (Brahmaputra)valley. The Kyirong gorge and valley form one of Tibet`s most beautiful picturesque alpine regions; and it boasts sites of historic importance, connected with King Songtsen Gampo, Padmasambhava, Milarepa, and Sakya Pandita, among others. The county capital is located at Dzongka,
Area: 8.869 sq km.
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by Sherab Woeser

DHARAMSHALA, January 24: In news just in, at least five Tibetans have died in police firings in Serthar, eastern Tibet today.

The incidence occurred earlier today when a large crowd of Tibetans gathered in the central town of Serthar and started raising slogans calling for Tibet’s independence.

Sources in exile with contacts in the region say that over 600 Chinese security personnel arrived at the scene of the protests and began firing indiscriminately at the crowd.

Speaking to Dharamshala based radio service VoT, an unnamed Tibetan said that five Tibetans were confirmed dead with over 40 Tibetans carrying serious injuries.

“The Chinese security personnel began to fire indiscriminately at the crowd of Tibetans demonstrating against the Chinese government in the central town of Serthar,” the Tibetan said.

Beijing based Tibetan writer, Woeser has also independently confirmed that five Tibetans were killed in the protests today. Woeser identified one of the dead as Bobo, a Tibetan man in his mid-thirties.

Sources say the whole of Serthar is under virtual martial law with large numbers of Chinese security personnel maintaining a strict surveillance all over the town.

All the shops and restaurants and public amenities in the region have been forced to shut down.

There is fear that the number of casualties will rise as injured Tibetans have been left with no access to medical treatment.
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The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains ( ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ་; Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of a massive mountain system that includes the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and other, lesser, ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot.

Together, the Himalayan mountain system is the world's highest, and home to the world's highest peaks, the Eight-thousanders, which include Mount Everest (Tb: Jomo Langma) and K2 (Tb: Chogori or Lamba Pahar). To comprehend the enormous scale of this mountain range, consider that Aconcagua, in the Andes, at 6,962 metres (22,841 ft) is the highest peak outside Asia, whereas the Himalayan system includes over 100 mountains exceeding 7,200 m (23,600 ft).

The general location of the Himalayas mountain range.
The main Himalayan range runs west to east, from the Indus river valley to the Brahmaputra river valley, forming an arc 2,400 km (1,500 mi) long, which varies in width from 400 km (250 mi) in the western Kashmir-Xinjiang region to 150 km (93 mi) in the eastern Tibet-Arunachal Pradesh region. The range consists of three coextensive sub-ranges, with the northernmost, and highest, known as the Great or Inner Himalayas.
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Lag Chung a herdsmen village, in the Yarlung Tsangpo or Brahmaputra river valley, surrounded with patches of grassland and desert sand dunes.

Saga county in North Lato is the region occupied by the upper Yarlung Tsangpo ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་ or Brahmaputra and its tributaries: the Rukyok Tsangpo and Kyibuk Tsangpo.
The county capital, known as Kyakyaru (Ch Saga),
Area: 13.374 sq km.
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