Babang Township, Sichuan

Babang (Tibetan: Palpung; ) is a rural Tibetan township in Dêgê County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan, China. The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu river in the western reaches of the Chola Mountains on the east side of the Jinsha River. The township contains significant remaining tracts of the Hengduan conifer forests. Babang is known for the 18th-century Palpung Monastery located on a ridge approximately 160 m above the centre of the township.