Taktser or Tengster (Tibetan: སྟག་འཚེར།, ZYPY: Dagcêr, Place on the Heights; Chinese: 红崖) is a village in the Western Chinese province of Qinghai (or the Tibetan cultural region of Amdo). Taktser was originally an area of pasture land for the larger village of Balangtsa, about two hours walk away in the valley. Cattle were brought to feed on the fertile grazing lands in summer, which caused them to give very rich milk. Later, when people realized that this was also a good place to farm, permanent houses were built, and the village comprised about thirty cottages by the time Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was born.