Dege travel and Dege tour
Dege Gengqing Town
Dege, or Derge, in Ganzi TAP in western Sichuan, located on the upper reached of the Jinshajiang and Yalongjiang Rivers. Dege, mean in Tibetan as "land of benevolence", is derived from "ten benevolences of the 4 orders" of Tibetan Buddhism, named after the Dege clan, the Dege clan and toponym of Dege both began to appear in the early period of the Yuan Dynasty. As a county, it established in 1913.
In history, Dege was one of 3 centers in Tibetan Culture, and other are Xiahe in Gansu, Lhasa in TAR. 5 main sects of Tibetan Buddhism such as Nyingmapa (Red), Saturdaykyapa (Variegated), Kagyupa (White), Gelukpa (Yellow) and Benbo were treated equally by the Dege clan, and conflicts amoung these schools of thought were rare in Dege.
Gengqing town, is now the county seat of Dege, it is a holy site in Tibetan Buddhism because of the printing house for turning out scriptures with unique paper, and as well as the Epic of King Gesar..
And, in Gengqing town, there are Tibetan Medical Hospital, Gengqing monastery, Tongtong monastery etc. Around Dege area are Yilhun Lhatso, Axu grassland, Palpungl monastery and Pewer monastery etc.
Dege hotel is the best hotel in Dege, 3 stars.
Bakong Scripture Printing Lamasery
At the heart of Dege is this lamasery (admission fee RMB 25). While the present structure dates from 1744, the printing houses has existed on this site for over 270 years with printing blocks dating from the early 18 th century. The lamasery currently houses over 217,000 engraved blocks of Tibetan scriptures from the five Tibetan Buddhist sects, including Bon. Texts include ancient works on astronomy, geography, music, medicine and Buddhist classics. A history of Indian Buddhism, comprising 555 woodblock plates, is the only surviving copy in the world (writing in Hindi, Sanskrit and Tibetan).
Built in the Qing Dynasty by the 42 nd prefect of Dege, the lamasery is revered as one of the three most important Tibetan lamaseries (along with Sakya Monastery and Lhasa's Potala Palace) - not surprising when you consider that the material stored in Dege makes up an estimated 70% of Tibet's literary heritage.
Within the lamasery, hundreds of workers hand-produce over 2500 prints each day. A visit will give you the opportunity to witness this rare sight as ink, paper and brushes fly through the workers' hands at lightning speed. Upstairs, an older crowd of printers produce larger prints of Tibetan gods on paper or colored cloth that later find their way to hills and temples as prayer flags. If you catch them with a free moment, they'll print you one of your choice for RMB 10.
Xinluhai Lake (Yilhun Lhatso ), Manigange (Yulong)
Yilhun Lhatso (Xinluhai lake or Yulong Lake), located beside the Manigange town about 11km, Derge county (100km to Gengqing town), made by effects of glanciation, altitude over 4500M, with Que'er ranges surrounding, the deepest is 15M, covers an area of 2.72 sq km.
Quer mountains, Tsola in Tibetan, meaning "a mountain neighboring a lake", there 5peaks over 5000 meters and a lot of lakes, grass meadows. Now it has been built in 1995 as a national nature reserve over 190sq km for white lips deer, about 180 species of animals living inside.
And in Que'er Mountains, it's glacier has 38 ice rivers, covers of 75000sq M. The peak 6168M, and the road of Sichuan-Tibet pass here about 5050M.
Manigange, also named Yulong, 3760M, is a town just beside of the Yihun lake, very important traffic hub in Ganze area for 3 roads pass through: Yushu in Qinghai to the north, Derge and Tibet to the west, Kangding and Inland China to the east.