Namling County (; ) is a county of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Geography Namling is the current administrative name given to the valleys of Oyuk, Tobgyet, and Shang ... [associated]... with both Buddhism and Bon. Through these valleys respectively flow the 'Nang-gung-chu'mang ra chu Tobpu-chu, and Shang-chu rivers, with their various tributaries, which rise amid the southern slopes of the Nyenchen Tanglha range to the north, and flow southwards to converge with the Brahmaputra [called the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet]. The lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River make "a sharp U-turn around Namjagbarwa Peak in Pai, Namling County." This is regarded as the starting point of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Nyingchi Prefecture, which stretches and averages over in depth. The county has three geysers. Town and townships Namling Town (, ) Car Township (, ) Dagna Township (, ) Doqoi Township (, ) Êma Township (, ) Gyamco Township (, ) Karzê Township (, ) Lhabupu Township (, ) Mangra Township (, ) Numa Township (, ) Putang Township (, ) Dakce Township (, ) Qum Township (, ) Ratang Township (, ) Rindü Township (, ) Sogqên Township (, ) Tobgyai Township (, ) Climate Development efforts The Namling County Schools Project was founded by Tashi Tsering in 1991, and has been sponsored by the Boulder-Lhasa Sister City Project (BLSCP) since 1994. As of 2013, it supports 53 rural elementary schools. As of 2006, 15 out of the county's 17 towns had cell phone service. As of 2001, potatoes have been introduced in Aimagang (Emagang) as a crop for herdsmen in the county. Potatoes and vegetables were shipped to markets in Xigazê, and production of peas and wheat decreased. The 2009 HIV/AIDS outreach efforts in rural areas of the county appear to have had a positive impact in comparison to a similar non-intervention area of Tingri County, according to Medicus Mundi Switzerland. In 2010, protests of environmental damage by gold mining resulted in arrests and at least one fatality. In 2011, Qin Weiqiang, secretary of the Namling County Party Committee, said that after the "Lhasa–Xigazê Railway is put into operation", the number of tourists in Namling County was expected to increase. Culture "The famous local specialities are silver utensils, Tibetan sword and so on. Namling Town is the office place of Namling with a population 5,000, where are many monasteries." Traditional Tibetan opera