By Tim Matson
ISBN-10: 1581577990
ISBN-13: 9781581577990
There's not anything like a pond. What else can concurrently bring up your aesthetic excitement, provide leisure possibilities, aid the surroundings, and elevate the worth of your house? Earth Ponds is the normal source for construction and retaining those vital and beautiful panorama features.
For thirty years now Earth Ponds, with a few 100,000 copies in print, has guided a whole iteration of pond makers on every little thing from website making plans to soil sampling to drainage and natural world administration. It’s a whole evaluation of the rustic pond.
Illustrations consultant the pond builder via each step of the method; chapters conscientiously describe the problems and judgements in a perfectly own manner. It’s the condensed knowledge of a guy who has spent an entire life development, restoring, and holding ponds.
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3 Taklung Dzong [stag lung rdzong] was built by a monk named Tenpe Dronme [bstan pa’i sgron me] in the Kalaktang [kha legs steng] region in the sixteenth century: it is one of the oldest fortresses cum gompa [dgon pa] in the Monpa area Fig. 4 A wall of Taklung Dzong [stag lung rdzong]: this dzong consisted of three floors, but it was destroyed by an earthquake. 2 Formation of Taklung Dzong Fortress 37 Tenpe Dronme (bstan pa’i sgron me) in the Kalaktang region during the sixteenth century. Tenpe Dronme was a disciple of the second Dalai Lama, Gedun Gyasto [dge ’dun rgya mtsho] (1475–1543; Tenpa 2013).
34 3 Taxation by the Tibetan Authorities and the Formation of Fortresses According to Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi (1909), the Tibetan administration in Lhasa in about 1900 consisted of 165 monks and the same number of secular individuals serving as senior officials. According to Yamaguchi (1987), those numbers were 175 monks and 175 secular individuals. More details were reported by Kawaguchi (1909). The Tibetan monks were under the direction of four senior secretaries and the secular staff under four ministers.
2 Compiled by Wag Indra, the document Rgyal rigs’byung khungs gsal ba’i sgron me (Rgyal rigs for short) is translated as Ngag dbang in Tibetan. Ardussi (2009) believes that it was written in 1668, though Aris (1986) puts this date at 1728 and Yang Palmo all had a son each with the king, and their names were, respectively, Sangde Tsan [gsang sde btsan], Bede Tsan [sbas sde btsan], and Gapde Tsan [’gab sde btsan]. Sangde Tsan became king of a region in Bhutan. Gapde Tsan was taken to the place known as the Khorwong [’khor dbang] valley under Thembang [them bang] to be enthroned, even though poverty was prevalent in that area.
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