Tashigang, Ngari Prefecture
Tashigang
(Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་, Wylie: bkra shis sgang, THL: tra shi gang, transl. "auspicious hillock"),
with a Chinese spelling Zhaxigang ,
is a village in the Gar County of the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet.
The village forms the central district of the Zhaxigang Township.
It houses an ancient monastery dating to the 11th century.
Gar and Sengge Zangbo valleys, with Tashigang at their confluence; Demchok is further down the Indus Valley (which is a continuation of the Gar Valley).
Sengge Zangbo,
Sengge Khabab or Shiquan He is a river in the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China that is the source stream of the Indus river, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and South Asia. The river rises in the mountain springs north of the Manasarovar lake, and 300 km (190 mi) downstream joins the Gar Tsangpo river near the village of Tashigang. Although it is thereafter called the Indus internationally, the Tibetans continue to regard the combined river to be Sênggê Zangbo as it flows into Ladakh.
Chizuo Tsangpo, a tributary of Sengge Zangbo, near its confluence