China

Beijing

Temple of the White Clouds


Qinghai Province

Capital of Qinghai Province, city of about one million, northern gateway to the Tibetan Plateau

Kumbum

Large monastery near Xining, famous as the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, the great Yellow Hat lama

Gongde

Small town 18 miles south of the huge salt lake Qinghai Nu; near here the Mongol Altan Khan gave the Dalai Lama his title in 1578


Xinjiang


Tibet


Shanxi Province

Wu-Tai Shan

Taiyuan - Twin Pagodas


Sichuan Province

Emei Shan

A 10,077 foot-high peak, one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China


Shaanxi Province

Xian City Wall

Xian | Beilin Museum

Xian | Small Goose Pagoda

Inner Mongolia

 Hohhot

City of about one million, founded by Altan Khan in the mid-sixteenth century

Hailar | Dalai Nuur

Shangdu

City Founded by Khubilai

Dolonuur


Gansu Province

Labrang Monastery

Lanzhou

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