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Tagong (Lhagang) Grassland & Monastery
Tagong township, located to the northwest of Kangding (Dartsendo), 113 km to Kangding, Alt 3700M. It's a vast expanse of green meadow surrounded by snow-capped peaks and dotted with Tibetan herdsmen and tents. The annual Horse Race Festival is held at the beginning of the 8th lunar month in Tagong grassland. There are Tagong Grassland, Tagong Monastery (Lhagong temple), Tagong Pagoda Stupa, Yala Snow-capped Mountain, Tagong Buddhism College etc around.Tagong Monastery, built during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to commemorate the Han Princess Wencheng and Phagspa, the Grand State Tutor of Tibetan Buddhism with Buddhism Institute inside, also named as "the small Lhasa Jokhang Monastery", is one of the 108 temples built souring the reign of Songtse Gampo in ancient Tibetan times. There is a sacred statue of 12-year old sakyamuni (Buddha) in the monastery which have been brought by Princess Wenchen on her way to Lhasa. It collects statues, white towers, other cultural artifacts, and scriptures of the Sakya Buddhist sect. This temple is distinctive for its four towers painted green, red, yellow and white respectively. There is a big Buddha Event about 3 days around the 30th June in Tibetan Calendar every year. About 100 chortens lies behind the Tagong monastery.
Princess Bridge
A stone bridge across Zheduo River at 1 km to Kangding, built for Princess Wencheng to Tibet, and re-constructed in 1997 with ethnic patterns carved flowers and figures, and dragons as well..
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