Cover illustration: Two prominent chörtens to the south-east of Dechen Town (Diqin Xian) guarding an important view of the sacred mountain range, Kawakarpo (Meili Snow Mountain). Chörtens are also useful as identifiers of religious areas and often conspicuously appear on satellite imagery – see Section 7.4 below. Photo by author.
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Names: Farmer, Michael, author.
Title: An atlas of the tibetan plateau / Michael Farmer.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Brill’s tibetan studies library + btsllgh – languages of the greater himalayan region, 15686183 ; vol.50 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021041364 (print) | LCCN 2021041365 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004462526 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004498686 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—Maps. | Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—Historical geography—Maps. | Tibet Autonomous Region (China)—History—Maps. | LCGFT: Remote-sensing images | Atlases.
Classification: LCC G2308.T5 F3 2022 (print) | LCC G2308.T5 (ebook) | DDC 912.51/5--DC23/ENG/20211005
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