Old Yatung

Old Yatung (Chinese: 老亚东; pinyin: Lǎo Yàdōng), originally just "Yatung", with a native Tibetan spelling of Nyatong[1] or Myatong,[2] is a location 2 miles west of Rinchengang in the lower Chumbi Valley in the present day Yadong County of Tibet.

[3][4][5] But according to travel writer John Easton, Yatung is actually a hill top location adjoining the valley, which has a historic Kagyu monastery.

)[2] Tibetologist L. Austine Waddell spells it as "Na-dong", and states that it means "the ear".

[9] The Yatung ("nasal bridge") mountain is on the west bank of the Amo Chu river between the Chema and Rinchengang in the Chumbi Valley (or Yadong County).

[11] Its first Commissioner in 1894 was F. E. Taylor,[12] but, during the Younghusband Expedition, a certain Captain Parr was apparently posted to handle the encounter.

Upstream from the customs house is the confluence of a stream called Champi Chu that flows down from the Nathu La pass.

Map of Chumbi Valley in 1898, showing Yatung west of Rinchengang. (The red line shows the route allowed for British Indian traders before the Younghusband Expedition.)
The Tibetan fortification at Yatung