Amdo (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་, Wylie: a mdo [ʔam˥˥.to˥˥]; Chinese: 安多; pinyin: Ānduō) is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Ü-Tsang...
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Amdo Tibetan (Tibetan script: ཨ་མདོའི་སྐད་, Wylie: A-mdo’i skad, Lhasa dialect: [ámtokɛ́ʔ]; also called Am kä) is the Tibetic language spoken in Amdo...
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Amdo County (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང་; Chinese: 安多县) is a county within Nagqu of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The county covers an area of 43,410...
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Amdo Jampa (Tibetan: ཨ་མདོའི་བྱམས་པ, Wylie: a mdo'i byams pa) (born 1911 in Chentsa, Amdo, Tibet, died 28 March 2002, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region,...
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Qinghai–Gansu sprachbund (redirect from Amdo sprachbund)
The Qinghai–Gansu sprachbund or Amdo sprachbund is a sprachbund in the plateau traversed by the upper Yellow River, including northeastern Qinghai and...
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varieties such as Central and Khams Tibetan have developed tone registers. Amdo and Ladakhi-Balti are without tone. Tibetan morphology can generally be described...
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Gendün Chöphel (redirect from Amdo Gendun Chöphel)
poet, linguist, and artist. He was born in 1903 in Shompongshe, Rebkong, Amdo. He was a creative and controversial figure and is considered by many to...
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family in Taktser (Hongya Village), in the traditional Tibetan region of Amdo. He was selected as the tulku of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937, and formally...
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found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. The 4th was then born in Mongolia as the great-grandson...
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Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers...
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cholka (cholka-sum). The other two cholka are Kham (ཁམས་, khams) (Dotod) and Amdo (ཨ༌མདོ; a mdo) (Domed). According to a Tibetan saying, "the best religion...
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conflict between Tibetan guerrillas and the PLA started in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare...
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Amdo railway station (Chinese: 安多站) is the Qinghai–Tibet Railway station in Amdo County, Nagchu, Tibet, China. The station is located 1,524 km (947 mi)...
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Tibetan cuisine "balep" breads and fried pies including: Amdo balep, a rounded bread from the Amdo region. Sha balep (ཤ་བག་ལེབ), fried beef pies Numtrak...
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2008 Tibetan unrest (section Amdo/Gansu)
Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai (known to Tibetans as Amdo). Chinese security forces surrounded the Ditsa monastery in Bayan County...
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Kelden Gyatso (section Return to Amdo and later life)
the Rongwo Drubchen tulku lineage, and an important figure for Buddhism in Amdo, a region of north-eastern Tibet. The founder of a religious college and...
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Wylie; dbus gtsang) is one of the three Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in the north-east, and Kham in the east. The region of Ngari in the north-west...
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High pressure metamorphic terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone (section Amdo: Dongqiao-Amdo (middle sector))
divided into three parts: Bangong Lake-Gertse (western sector), Dongqiao-Amdo (middle sector), and Dingqing-Nujiang (eastern sector). During the Middle...
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only persevered in Amdo, then largely dominated by non-Tibetan peoples and conquered by a Tibetan polity in the 10th century. In Amdo and during the brief...
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in Lhasa, Shigatse, or nearby locations. The eastern regions of Kham and Amdo often maintained a more decentralized indigenous political structure, being...
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is a Tibetan noodle soup, which originated in the eastern part of Tibet. Amdo thukpa, especially thenthuk, is a variant among the Indians, especially Ladakhis...
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Pana, Tibet (redirect from Amdo Town)
Pana, or Pagnag (Chinese: 帕那镇), also known as Anduo, or Amdo, is a town and the seat of Amdo County in the Nagqu Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region...
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geographic origins across the Khams and Amdo region. The Golok was a haven for refugees and immigrants from all over the Amdo and Kham and they are an amalgamation...
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Wylie: a khu pad ma; Amdo Tibetan [akʰɯ panma]) is a Tibetan song, written by the Tibetan singer Palgon (Wylie: dpal mgon, Amdo Tibetan [χʷalɡon]). It...
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Qinghai (category Amdo)
(Machu River, Yellow River) and the Yalong (Yangtze) rivers and was known as Amdo, but apportioned to different administrative divisions than Tibet proper...
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Atlantis. Their high priest, Lolem, decides to sacrifice them to the great god Amdo. The Doctor is given a meal, and realises that it must have been prepared...
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language", a form of Central Plains Mandarin, and his family speak neither Amdo Tibetan nor Lhasa Tibetan. Lanzhou dialect [zh] (simplified Chinese: 兰州话;...
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the traditional classification of Tibetic languages (the other two being Amdo Tibetan and Ü-Tsang). In terms of mutual intelligibility, Khams could communicate...
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Gruyter. p. 29. ISBN 978-3-11-044406-3. Kozlow, P.K. (1955). Die Mongolei, Amdo und die tote Stadt Chara-choto. Leipzig: Brockhaus. p. 383. Wang, Helen;...
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Khorshak Temple Western Tibet Kirti Gompa Amdo Gelug 1472 Kumbum Monastery Amdo Gelug 1583 Labrang Monastery Amdo Gelug 1709 Was founded in 1709 by the first...
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