Shelkar

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| name = Shelkar

| official_name = Xêgar
协格尔

| other_name = New Tingri / Shegar / Shekar

| native_name = ཤེལ་དཀར་

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| settlement_type = Town

| image_skyline = Shelkar-20-Stadt-2014-gje.jpg

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| image_caption = View of Shelkar in 2014

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| subdivision_name = China

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Tibet Autonomous Region

| subdivision_type2 = Prefecture

| subdivision_name2 = Shigatse Prefecture

| subdivision_type3 = County

| subdivision_name3 = Tingri County

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| population_total = 9528

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| timezone = CST

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| coordinates = {{coord|28|39|30|N|87|07|20|E|region:CN|display=inline}}

| elevation_m = 4330

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File:Shekar Dzong, Shekar Monastery and Shekar (village) in 1921.jpg, Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 (1 ed.). New York, Longman & Green, page 67]]

File:Shekar-dzong-1933.jpg!PinterestLarge.jpg; destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the 1959 Tibetan uprising{{Cite journal|last=Harvard|first=Andrew|date=July 1984|title=The Forgotten Face of Everest|journal=The National Geographic Magazine|publisher=National Geographic Society|volume= 166| issue = 1|pages=77|quote=(Caption for two photos- one "before" and "after" destruction. The "before" photo is shown on this page, while the 1980 "after" photo is not available)- "Casualty of Violence, the great Tibetan monastery at Xegar photographed (right) by a British group on a 1922 reconnaissance of Mount Everest, appears as a magnificent cliffside sanctuary guarded by a walled fortress on the slopes above. Xegar, whose name means "shining crystal" in Tibetan, then housed 400 monks and served as a center of Buddhist teaching and influence. The lower photograph, taken by author Andrew Harvard in 1980, shows the devastation of both fortress and monastery, with nothing remaining of Xegar but the small village at the base of the mountain. Although local residents were reluctant to discuss Xegar's fate, other sources have indicated that the monastery was destroyed by Chinese Communist forces during the Tibetan rebellion of 1959..."}}]]

Shelkar or Shekar{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonmountev00bruc|title=The assault on Mount Everest, 1922|last1=Bruce|first1=Charles Granville|last2=Mount Everest Expedition (1922)|date=1923|publisher=Longmans, Green|others=Snell Library Northeastern University|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/assaultonmountev00bruc/page/n425 338] (Index)|oclc=220914742}} (Tibetan: {{lang|bo|ཤེལ་དཀར་}}, "white crystal";{{sfn|Strachey|1854|p=4}} {{Lang-zh|s=协格尔镇|t=協格爾鎮|p=Xiégé'ěr Zhèn}}), also called New Tingri,{{Cite web |title= |script-title=zh:定日县 |trans-title=Tingri County |url=http://xz.zssi.net/lvyou/xiegeer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109202153/http://xz.zssi.net/lvyou/xiegeer/ |archive-date=2025-01-09 |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=xz.zssi.net |language=zh}} is a town in, and the administrative centre for, Tingri County, Shigatse in southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The town has a population of 9,528, per the 2010 Chinese census.{{Cite web |date=2016-02-24 |title= |script-title=zh:定日县历史沿革 |trans-title=Tingri County Organizational History |url=https://www.xzqh.org/html/show/xz/20244.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123000218/https://www.xzqh.org/html/show/xz/20244.html |archive-date=2022-01-23 |access-date=2025-01-09 |website=xzqh.org |language=zh}}