ABSTRACT
Gyangtsé is some 147 miles inside the frontier. It is the third largest city in Tibet, and is the seat of an important administrative district. In common with other such places, the town itself is dominated and rendered almost insignificant by the great stone castle, which is on the top of the hill in the very centre of the plain. The castle is one of the most imposing anywhere in Tibet, and certainly deserves to rank on a par with any of the mediæval European castles, although it has only recently been rebuilt.
