Monks of Zogong Monastery, Chamdo Prefecture are busy with the maintenance work, photo from tibet.cn.

A monk  of Zogong Monastery, Chamdo Prefecture is busy with the maintenance work, photo from tibet.cn.

Tenzin, a monk of Zogong Monastery, Chamdo Prefecture is busy with the maintenance work, photo from tibet.cn.

Zogong Monastery, the biggest monastery in Zogong County, Chamdo Prefecture, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is now under maintenance and protection work for protection of cultural relics.

According to the principal of the monastery, with the special fund from cultural relics sectors of Tibet, the maintenance work started from this September, which mainly covers construction of the cultural relics exhibition room, reinforcement and maintenance of the monastery, and the whole project is expected to be finished by end of October.

Founded in A.D.830 as a monastery of Nyingma Sect, Zogang Monastery changed into Gelug Sect in A.D. 1450. Presently, Zogong Monastery is a county-level historical and cultural site under protection, which received its last maintenance in 1989.

During the third national survey on cultural relics , 678 sites of cultural relics were registered in Chamdo with 549 newly-discovered ones. Among all these cultural relics sites, two of them are national-level historical and cultural site under protection, 33 ones at regional-level and 83 ones at county-level.