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'''Kham''' (Tib. [[ཁམས་]], Wyl. ''khams''), often translated as '''Eastern Tibet''', is one of the three main provinces of Tibet (the others being [[Ü-Tsang]] and [[Amdo]]) | '''Kham''' (Tib. [[ཁམས་]], [[Wyl.]] ''khams''), often translated as '''Eastern Tibet''', is one of the three main provinces of Tibet (the others being [[Ü-Tsang]] and [[Amdo]].) | ||
==Four Rivers & Six Ranges== | ==Four Rivers & Six Ranges== | ||
Latest revision as of 21:25, 10 December 2017
Kham (Tib. ཁམས་, Wyl. khams), often translated as Eastern Tibet, is one of the three main provinces of Tibet (the others being Ü-Tsang and Amdo.)
Four Rivers & Six Ranges
Traditionally, Kham is said to cover the area known as the 'four rivers and six ranges' (Tib. ཆུ་བཞི་སྒང་དྲུག་, chushyi gang druk). The 'four rivers' are the
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The 'six ranges' are the
- Zalmo Range (Tib. ཟལ་མོ་སྒང་, Wyl. zal mo sgang),
- Tsawa Range (Tib. ཚ་བ་སྒང་, Wyl. tsha ba sgang),
- Markham Range (Tib. སྨར་ཁམས་སྒང་, Wyl. smar khams sgang),
- Minyak-rab Range (Tib. མི་ཉག་རབ་སྒང་, Wyl. mi nyag rab sgang),
- Pobor Range (Tib. སྤོ་འབོར་སྒང་, Wyl. spo 'bor sgang), and
- Mardza Range (Tib. དམར་རྫ་སྒང་, Wyl. dmar rdza sgang).