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merchants call the Tumulung Lake as "Brahmakund" and regard it as the source of Brahmaputra. Water residues seen in satellite maps indicate that waters from the Ganglung Glacier, to the west of Angsi Glacier, once flowed into the Tumulung Lake, but now they flow west into
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Swami Pranavananda, an Indian ascetic and pilgrim, noted in 1939 that the Tibetan traditions regard the Chema-yungdung glacier as the source of Brahmaputra. He also noted that Kubi Chu, another source stream of Brahmaputra favoured by
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Ganesh Pangare; Bushra Nishat; Xiawei Liao; Halla Maher Qaddumi, eds. (2021),
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continues to regard the Chema-yungdung Glacier as the source of Brahmaputra.
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As another complication, Angsi Chu merges with another stream called
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and this determination has been accepted by the Indian observers.
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declared that the Angsi Glacier is the "true source" of the
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Index

Map showing the location of Angsi
Valley glacier
Tibel
Coordinates
30°20′53″N 82°2′41″E / 30.34806°N 82.04472°E / 30.34806; 82.04472
Simplified Chinese
Tibetan
Wylie
THL
glacier
Himalayas
Purang County
Tibet Autonomous Region
Purang County
headwaters
Tsangpo River
30°24′14″N 82°16′37″E / 30.4038°N 82.277°E / 30.4038; 82.277 (Confluence of Angsi and Chema-yungdung streams)
Sven Hedin
Tibetan
Wylie
30°25′29″N 82°11′06″E / 30.4246°N 82.1851°E / 30.4246; 82.1851 (Confluence of Dangkar Chu and Angsi Chu)
Bhotiya
Sutlej
30°26′25″N 82°00′19″E / 30.4402°N 82.0052°E / 30.4402; 82.0052 (Ganglung stream flowing west)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tsangpo River
Encyclopedia Britannica
Tibetan
Wylie
ZYPY

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