Baiyü County

Baiyü County
白玉县 · དཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང
Baiyu, Pelyül
County
Palyul Monastery in Baiyü
Palyul Monastery in Baiyü
Location of Baiyü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Baiyü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Baiyü is located in Sichuan
Baiyü
Baiyü
Location in Sichuan
Baiyü is located in China
Baiyü
Baiyü
Baiyü (China)
Coordinates: 31°13′N 98°49′E / 31.217°N 98.817°E / 31.217; 98.817
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
County seatZugzhün (Jianshe)
Area
 • Total
10,386 km2 (4,010 sq mi)
Elevation
3,012 m (9,882 ft)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
59,524
 • Density5.7/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.baiyu.gov.cn
Baiyü County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese白玉县
Traditional Chinese白玉縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBáiyù Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanདཔལ་ཡུལ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliedpal yul rdzong
Tibetan PinyinBaiyü Zong

Baiyü County or Pelyül (Tibetan: དཔལ་ཡུལ།, Chinese: 白玉县) is a county in far western Sichuan, China on the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Administrative divisions

Baiyü County is divided into 4 towns and 12 townships.

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Zugzhün Town
(Jianshe) 		建设镇 Jiànshè Zhèn འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'dzugs skrun grong rdal 513331100
Acab Town
(Acha) 		阿察镇 Āchá Zhèn ཨ་ཚབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། a tshab grong rdal 513331101
Horbo Town
(Hepo) 		河坡镇 Hépō Zhèn ཧོར་སྤོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། hor spo grong rdal 513331102
Gajê Town
(Gaiyu) 		盖玉镇 Gàiyù Zhèn སྒ་རྗེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། sga rje grong rdal 513331103
Townships
Zhi'gyü Township
(Jinsha) 		金沙乡 Jīnshā Xiāng འབྲི་རྒྱུད་ཤང་། 'bri rgyud shang 513331200
Ronggêb Township
(Ronggai) 		绒盖乡 Rónggài Xiāng རོང་འགེབས་ཤང་། rong 'gebs shang 513331201
Zangdo Township
(Zomdo, Zhangdu) 		章都乡 Zhāngdū Xiāng གཙང་མདོ་ཤང་། gtsang mdo shang 513331202
Barong Township
(Barrong, Marong) 		麻绒乡 Máróng Xiāng འབར་རོང་ཤང་། 'bar rong shang 513331203
Ragkyab Township
(Rejia) 		热加乡 Rèjiā Xiāng རག་ཁྱབ་ཤང་། rag khyab shang 513331205
Dêrlung Township
(Denglong) 		登龙乡 Dēnglóng Xiāng གཏེར་ལུང་ཤང་། gter lung shang 513331206
Zinkog Township
(Zengke) 		赠科乡 Zèngkē Xiāng འཛིན་ཁོག་ཤང་། 'dzin khog shang 513331207
Barqung Township
(Maqiong) 		麻邛乡 Máqióng Xiāng འབར་ཆུང་ཤང་། 'bar chung shang 513331209
Nyamgyi Township
(Liaoxi) 		辽西乡 Liáoxī Xiāng མཉམ་སྐྱིད་ཤང་། mnyam skyid shang 513331210
Damtar Township
(Nata) 		纳塔乡 Nàtǎ Xiāng འདམ་ཐར་ཤང་། 'dam thar shang 513331211
Anzi Township 安孜乡 Ānzī Xiāng ཨ་འཛི་ཤང་། a 'dzi shang 513331212
Samar Township
(Shama) 		沙马乡 Shāmǎ Xiāng ས་དམར་ཤང་། sa dmar shang 513331214

Climate

Climate data for Baiyü, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 23.1
(73.6) 		23.7
(74.7) 		29.0
(84.2) 		30.1
(86.2) 		31.3
(88.3) 		35.4
(95.7) 		35.6
(96.1) 		32.7
(90.9) 		31.4
(88.5) 		29.0
(84.2) 		24.4
(75.9) 		21.2
(70.2) 		35.6
(96.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 10.1
(50.2) 		12.5
(54.5) 		15.2
(59.4) 		18.3
(64.9) 		22.2
(72.0) 		24.5
(76.1) 		25.2
(77.4) 		24.9
(76.8) 		22.6
(72.7) 		18.5
(65.3) 		14.3
(57.7) 		10.4
(50.7) 		18.2
(64.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) −0.7
(30.7) 		2.3
(36.1) 		5.7
(42.3) 		9.0
(48.2) 		12.8
(55.0) 		15.4
(59.7) 		16.2
(61.2) 		15.7
(60.3) 		13.2
(55.8) 		8.5
(47.3) 		3.2
(37.8) 		−0.9
(30.4) 		8.4
(47.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −8.9
(16.0) 		−5.8
(21.6) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		1.9
(35.4) 		5.8
(42.4) 		9.5
(49.1) 		10.7
(51.3) 		10.2
(50.4) 		7.9
(46.2) 		2.4
(36.3) 		−4.3
(24.3) 		−8.9
(16.0) 		1.6
(34.8)
Record low °C (°F) −18.5
(−1.3) 		−15.8
(3.6) 		−11.7
(10.9) 		−7.1
(19.2) 		−3.7
(25.3) 		1.2
(34.2) 		2.7
(36.9) 		0.9
(33.6) 		−1.5
(29.3) 		−7.1
(19.2) 		−12.8
(9.0) 		−18.6
(−1.5) 		−18.6
(−1.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.3
(0.05) 		3.3
(0.13) 		12.4
(0.49) 		35.9
(1.41) 		55.6
(2.19) 		124.7
(4.91) 		144.9
(5.70) 		125.2
(4.93) 		101.8
(4.01) 		33.6
(1.32) 		4.9
(0.19) 		1.1
(0.04) 		644.7
(25.37)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.2 3.4 7.0 12.6 16.5 21.8 21.4 18.8 18.5 10.9 2.9 1.2 136.2
Average snowy days 2.9 6.6 7.5 3.0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0.9 3.3 2.6 27
Average relative humidity (%) 34 35 42 51 56 67 72 72 74 66 49 40 55
Mean monthly sunshine hours 170.2 152.6 165.1 176.1 198.9 185.2 190.0 178.9 169.4 171.6 174.9 180.1 2,113
Percent possible sunshine 53 48 44 45 47 44 44 44 46 49 56 58 48
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Monasteries

The Palyul Monastery is located in Baiyü County as is the Yarchen Monastery and Katok Monastery. Nyoshul Jonpalung Monastery (སྨྱོ་ཤུལ་ལྗོན་པ་ལུང་དགོན།; 辽西寺 / 辽西圆林; Liáoxī Sì / Liáoxī yuánlín), founded by Khenpo Ngaga (1879-1941) in 1910, is located in the county's Dzin Valley of Tromtar. It is a Nyingma monastery which is considered a branch of Katok.[4]

Adzom Gön Monastery (Anzom, Anzom Chogar, 'od gsal theg mchog gling, Osel Tekchok Ling, Osal Tegchogling) is another branch of Katok in the Tromtar (romkok (khrom tar / khrom khog) region.[5]

The founder, Adzom Drukpa Drondul Pawo Dorje (a 'dzom 'brug pa 'gro 'dul dpa' bo rdo rje) was born in 1842 in Tashi Dungkargang in the Tromtar region.[6]

Tromge Monastery (Tromge Gon khrom dge dgon; 昌根寺; Chānggēn Sì) was founded in 1275 in the Tromtar Valley. It is a branch of Katok Monastery.[7][8]

Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa (1901-1975) entered Tromge Monastery at age 11.[9]

Tromge Monastery School was established in the 2000s to provide a traditional education to about two dozen students.[10]

References

  1. ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
  2. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Nyoshul Jonpalung Monastery". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  5. ^ "Adzom Gar". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  6. ^ Gardner, Alexander (2009). "The First Adzom Drukpa, Drodul Pawo Dorje". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  7. ^ "Tromge Gon". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  8. ^ "Chagdud Gonpa – Associates". chagdudgonpa.org. 2015. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  9. ^ Dorje, Sangngak (2013). "Jazi Amnye Drodul Pema Garwang Lingpa". The Treasury of Lives. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  10. ^ "Tromge Monastery School | Chagdud Gonpa Amrita Seattle". amritaseattle.org. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
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