Taktser

Taktser (; meaning 'Place on the Heights'") or Hongya Village () is a village in Shihuiyao Township, Ping'an District, Haidong, in the east of Qinghai province, China (also known as Amdo or Kokonor). Tibetan, Han and Hui Chinese people populate the village which is notable as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

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Settlement.name: Taktser
Settlement.other_name: DagcêrHongya
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Taktser.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: View of the village of Taktser
Settlement.pushpin_map: Qinghai#China
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: Left
Settlement.pushpin_map_alt: Taktser is located on a hill in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Qinghai##Location in China
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Qinghai
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Prefecture-level city
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Haidong
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ping'an
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Township

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Wikidata facts

Official name: 红崖村
Elevation: 2843
Image: Taktser.jpg

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Population
Birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama
Monastery of the 4th Karmapa
Climate
References
Further reading

Taktser was originally an area of pasture land for the larger village of Balangtsa, about two hours walk away in the valley. Cattle were brought to feed on the fertile grazing lands in summer, which caused them to give very rich milk. Later, when people realized that this was also a good place to farm, permanent houses were built, and the village comprised about thirty cottages by the time Tenzin Gyatso was born in 1935.