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| | name = Poo
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| | settlement_type = Town
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| | pushpin_map = India Himachal Pradesh#India
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| | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Himachal Pradesh, India
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| | coordinates = {{coord|31.7667|N|78.5833|E|display=inline,title}}
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| | subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
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| | subdivision_name1 = [[Himachal Pradesh]]
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| | subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
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| | subdivision_name2 = [[Kinnaur district|Kinnaur]]
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| | | governing_body = [[Nagar Palika]]
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| | elevation_m = 2262
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| | population_total = 1,192
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| | demographics_type1 = Languages
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| | demographics1_title1 = Official
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| | demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
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| [[File:Poo Town.jpg|thumb|280px|Poo Town, [[Kinnaur]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], India.]]
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| '''Poo''', or '''Pooh''', also known as '''Spuwa''' (altitude 2,662 metres or 8,736 ft), is a small town in [[Kinnaur district]], [[Himachal Pradesh]], India. The approximate population given within a 7 km radius of the town is 1,192.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/11/Poo.html Poo, India Page]. fallingrain.com</ref>
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| Poo is 58 km from Powari village along National Highway 22. It is known for its natural environment, green fields, apricot orchards, vineyards and almond trees.{{fact|date=May 2017}} Inscriptions suggest that Poo was an important trading center in the early 11th century.
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| When [[August Hermann Francke (Tibetologist)|A. H. Francke]] arrived in Poo from the south in July, 1910, it was the first village he found where the language was "entirely Tibetan".<ref>Francke (1914), p. 18.</ref>
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| There is an ancient temple, the Lotsaba-bai-lha-khang, dedicated to [[Shakyamuni]] or [[Buddha]] and attributed to the translator (or ''Lotsaba''), [[Rinchen Zangpo]] (958–1055).<ref>Francke (1914), p. 20.</ref> The shrine has wooden columns supporting a high ceiling. It has murals and a painted door from the period of Rinchen Zangpo (10th to 11th century), though they are in a poor state of preservation.<ref>Handa (1987), pp. 108–109.</ref>
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| There is a local pre-Buddhist deity, Dablā, who has no dwelling or altar in Poo (although he has a [[devata]] temple devoted to him at [[Kanum]]).<ref>Handa (1987), p. 108.</ref> His only manifestation is a pole with a small idol set on its upper portion and adorned with yak tail hair and long pieces of coloured cloth.<ref>[http://www.himachalhotels.in/pooh.html Kinnaur / Pooh]. himachalhotels.in</ref>
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| ==References==
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| ==Bibliography==
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| *Francke, A. H. (1914, 1926). ''Antiquities of Indian Tibet''. Two Volumes. Calcutta. 1972 reprint: S. Chand, New Delhi.
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| *Handa, O. C. (1987). ''Buddhist Monasteries in Himachal Pradesh''. Indus Publishing Company, New Delhi.
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.maplandia.com/india/himachal-pradesh/kinnaur/poo/ Map and coordinates of Poo]
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| [[Category:Tourism in Himachal Pradesh]]
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| [[Category:Cities and towns in Kinnaur district]]
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| [[Category:Hill stations in Himachal Pradesh]]
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