Mount Nyenchen Tanglha

Mount Nyenchen Tanglha[3][4][5] (officially Nyainqêntanglha Feng; Tibetan: གཉན་ཆེན་ཐང་ལྷ་, Wylie: Gnyan-chen-thang-lha; Chinese: 念青唐古拉峰, Pinyin: Niànqīng Tánggǔlā Fēng) is the highest peak of Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, which together with the Gangdise range forms the Transhimalaya.

Mount Nyenchen Tanglha is located in the western part of the range on the watershed between the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra River) to the south and the endorheic basins of the Changtang to the north.

In Tibetan mythology Nyenchen Tanglha is considered the most influential deity in a large part of northern Tibet.

[6] He is considered to be a bodhisattva on the eighth level, and is a protector of the teachings of the Nyingma tradition.

It has a topographic prominence of 2,239m and its parent mountain is Gurla Mandhata located 890 km west.