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Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
22 lip 2024 · Shangri-La is the 'sun and moon in heart' in Tibetan, an ideal home only in heaven with lofty snow mountains, grand gorges, azure lakes and bucolic villages.
Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [1]
20 wrz 2024 · Ganden Sumtseling Monastery 噶丹松赞林. The highlight of Shangri-La is, without any doubt, the Songzanlin Monastery. Located only 5 km from the old town, it’s a beautiful Tibetan temple built in 1679. It’s the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Yunnan, sometimes called the Little Potala Palace.
Songzanlin Monastery in Shangri-La County, also called Ganden Sumtseling Monastery or Guihua Monastery, is the largest Tibetan Buddhist temple complex in Yunnan Province.
Shangri-La (formerly called Zhongdian), at an altitude of 3450m, is located in the seat of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwest of Yunnan Province, about 200 km from Lijiang with 4 hours’ driving.
Shangri-la (香格里拉, Xiānggélǐlā), formerly known as Zhongdian (中甸, Zhōngdiàn) and sometimes 'Gyalthang' in Tibetan, is where you really start to breathe in the Tibetan world – if you can breathe at all, given the altitude.
