Baurang

Baurang lies in the steep mountain country of eastern Kham south of Dartsedo, the Chinese Dajianlu, in the shadow of the Gongga massif. Dartsedo stood on the old border between Tibetan and Han lands, where porters carried brick tea up from Chengdu to trade for Tibetan wool. The Qing took the town by storm in 1701, and on 1 July 1786 an earthquake in these mountains ruined nearly the whole of it.