Taktser
Sign in to saveTaktser (; 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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- Taktser
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- DagcêrHongya
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- Village
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- View of the village of Taktser
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- Qinghai#China
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- Left
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- Taktser is located on a hill in the northeast of the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai province
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- People's Republic of China
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- Qinghai
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Haidong
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- Ping'an
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- Township
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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.
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.