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Tibet in space

Seven regional orientation points

These approximate city and regional centers help place the magazine’s stories. The map has no drawn province or terrain geometry; places without reviewed coordinates remain in the linked list below.

Tibet Autonomous Region
Lhasa Shigatse Shannan Nyingchi Chamdo Nagqu Ngari

North is up. Points show broad city or regional centers, not entrances or navigation coordinates.

These published places do not yet have reviewed representative coordinates. They remain linked here without a map point.

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Tholing Monastery

A twelfth-century manuscript found near Tholing preserves a historical narrative centred on Tibetan kingship, distinct from Buddhist histories of its period.

Art historian Christian Luczanits traces Newar-derived floral motifs and Chinese textile patterns in the Tholing murals while emphasizing Tibetan local agency.

Red monastery buildings at Tholing beneath the dry cliffs of the Sutlej valley.
The red temple at Tholing sits beneath the dry cliffs of the Sutlej valley; this exterior gives the monastery setting for the manuscript and art discussed here.

Tholing Monastery

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  1. The red temple at Tholing sits beneath the dry cliffs of the Sutlej valley; this exterior gives the monastery setting for the manuscript and art discussed here.Dieter Schuh · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗
  2. Donor figure in a mural inside Tholing Monastery’s northwest stupa, photographed in 2021. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.11th century West Tibetan painter Photography Zhang Jianlin · Public domain (Commons PD-Art; PDM 1.0) Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗