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Derge Parkhang 德格印经院Dégé Yìnjīngyuàn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Ganzi, Sichuan
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Ganzi
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Derge Parkhang
The Derge Parkhang is a working Tibetan printing house founded in 1729 by Tenpa Tsering, king of Derge, and attached to the Sakya-school Gonchen Monastery. It holds what is described as the world's largest collection of carved Tibetan woodblocks, from which scriptures, commentaries and works on history and medicine are still printed by hand, with printers working in pairs to ink the blocks and roll the paper.
How to get to Derge Parkhang
In Dêgê town, roughly 4 hours by road west of Ganzi town through the Chola Mountain tunnel; carry your passport, as it is checked at police checkpoints on the roads into western Ganzi.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Kangba Wendu Cultural Park 康巴文都 (under 10 km), Gangtuo Village 岗托村 (20 km).
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