Derge region, Kham

Derge (Dege) is a region of Kham in eastern Tibet (now in Sichuan, China), famous for its great printing house (parkhang) and as a centre of the nineteenth-century non-sectarian (Rimé) movement. It was the birthplace, in 1846, of the Nyingma scholar-polymath Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso.