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 having both meanings), where the first king of Tibet, Nyakri-btsanpo, was seen for the first time by Tibetans. There is a little plateau on this hill, called the "King’s Plain," or Btsan-tang, where a temple has been built called the Btsan-tang lha-khang.

Leaving this interesting spot behind, we rode on across the fields

which the peasants were ploughing and irrigating for the autumn crops, and came, after a few hours, to the sanctuary of Gadan namgyal-ling, where Tsongkhapa took his final vows of monkhood.