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Shelkar

Shelkar
ཤེལ་དཀར་
New Tingri[citation needed] / Shegar / Shekar
Town
Xêgar
协格尔
Shelkar is located in Tibet
Shelkar
Shelkar
Coordinates: 28°39′30″N 87°07′20″E / 28.65833°N 87.12222°E / 28.65833; 87.12222
CountryChina
ProvinceTibet Autonomous Region
PrefectureShigatse Prefecture
CountyTingri County
Elevation
4,330 m (14,210 ft)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total8,767
Time zoneUTC+8 (CST)
Shekar Dzong in 1921 from C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67
1933 Shekar Dzong (fortress) and Shekar monastery painted by Russian artist Nicholas Roerich; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the 1959 Tibetan uprising[1]

Shelkar or Shekar,[2][1] (Tibetan: ཤེལ་དཀར་, "white crystal")[3] also called New Tingri[citation needed], is the administrative centre for Tingri County, Shigatse Prefecture in southern Tibet Autonomous Region.

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  1. ^ a b Harvard, Andrew (July 1984). "The Forgotten Face of Everest". The National Geographic Magazine. 166 (1). National Geographic Society: 77. (Caption for two photos- one "before" and "after" destruction. The "before" photo is shown on this page, while the 1980 "after" photo is not available)- "Casualty of Violence, the great Tibetan monastery at Xegar photographed (right) by a British group on a 1922 reconnaissance of Mount Everest, appears as a magnificent cliffside sanctuary guarded by a walled fortress on the slopes above. Xegar, whose name means "shining crystal" in Tibetan, then housed 400 monks and served as a center of Buddhist teaching and influence. The lower photograph, taken by author Andrew Harvard in 1980, shows the devastation of both fortress and monastery, with nothing remaining of Xegar but the small village at the base of the mountain. Although local residents were reluctant to discuss Xegar's fate, other sources have indicated that the monastery was destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the Tibetan rebellion of 1959..."
  2. ^ Bruce, Charles Granville; Mount Everest Expedition (1922) (1923). The assault on Mount Everest, 1922. Snell Library Northeastern University. New York: Longmans, Green. pp. 338 (Index). OCLC 220914742.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Strachey 1854, p. 4.

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