Kyitang
Kyitang is a township in contemporary Puhreng county. The temples of Kyitang and several neighboring regions (Khorchak, Tonding, Tsaparang, and Dungkar) are known to scholars for their preserved religious and historical inscriptions and murals dating to the tenth-century Purang-Gugé kingdom.
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Google Earth- སྐྱིད་ཐང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > skyid thang (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > Kyitang (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
- > Gyitang (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-Ethnic Pinyin Tibetan Transcription)
- > 吉讓 (Tibetan, Traditional Chinese Characters, Transcription-Tibetan-to-Chinese Transcription)
- Etymology for སྐྱིད་ཐང་།:
Basic etymology: happy-plain. The first syllable is a contraction of skyid pa.
Place ID: F3884
THL Extended GB Code: 5425215000