High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yangbajain (also spelled Yangbajing) is a town approximately 87 kilometers (54 miles) north-west of Lhasa, halfway to Damxung in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The town lies in an upland lush green valley surrounded by the tents of Nomads with grazing yak and sheep populating the hillside. It is the site Yangpachen Monastery, which was historically the seat of the Shamarpas of Karma Kagyu and the Yangbajing International Cosmic Ray Observatory. The area is famous for the Yangbajain hot springs, which have been harnessed to produce much of the electricity for the capital Lhasa. There is a thermoelectric power plant on the edge of the Yangbajain hot springs field covering 20–30 square kilometers. The thermoelectric power plant was established in 1977, and the first development of geothermal power not only in Tibet but in the whole of China.

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