Lhoka

English Lhokha (Shannan) Alternative forms en Lhokha Etymology From en bo ལྷོ་ཁ. Proper noun en prefecture-level city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China. en Shannan en 23 June 1966 21 June 1966 Buddhist Describes Lhasa Under Chinese Rule Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts 121 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063987390&seq=7 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Delhi Information Service of India 1541329 Communist China: Regional Affairs DDD 7 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063987390&seq=77 Meanwhile, Radio Lhasa announced on 18 June that advisory committees in all Tibetan villages had sent memorandums condemning counterrevolutionaries and royalists and pledging full support to Mao. Paradoxically, it was also announced that farmers in the Lhoka area were slow in adapting themselves to mechanized farming despite elaborate manuals being dispatched along [with] the Chinese tractors to the area. It seems Tibetans are quicker in condemning political shakeups than learning technical knowhow. en September 19, 2003 w:Philip P. Pan In the Name of the Panchen Lama w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240129074456/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/19/in-the-name-of-the-panchen-lama/b0e29170-fffb-49a2-b9b3-aca087bbcdaf/ 29 January 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/19/in-the-name-of-the-panchen-lama/b0e29170-fffb-49a2-b9b3-aca087bbcdaf/ 0190-8286 2269358 The government is also trying to end the rural tradition of sending children to study in the monasteries, arguing that they should attend secular schools. "In the monasteries, they only learn Tibetan and the sutras," said Deji, the top government official in Lhoka prefecture, who like many Tibetans has only one name. "They won't be well-educated because they won't have physics or chemistry or other modern subjects." en April 7, 2012 w:Edward Wong China Said to Detain Returning Tibetan Pilgrims w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20120407212256/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/world/asia/china-said-to-detain-returning-tibetan-pilgrims.html April 7, 2012 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/world/asia/china-said-to-detain-returning-tibetan-pilgrims.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific On Tuesday, Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the United States government, reported that a large number of the detainees being held in Lhasa had been released that day, while at least 200 others being held in Lhoka, outside Lhasa, were still in custody. en September 30, 2015 Artiz Parra China micromanages Tibet, floods it with money to woo locals w:AP News https://web.archive.org/web/20240323130611/https://apnews.com/466bccf00b2746c296e551187b88c8ae/china-micromanages-tibet-floods-it-money-woo-locals March 23, 2024 https://apnews.com/466bccf00b2746c296e551187b88c8ae/china-micromanages-tibet-floods-it-money-woo-locals Dawa, a 55 year-old herder resettled in Lhoka prefecture’s Gongkar county, proudly showed visiting officials and journalists how each member of the family now has a separate room.In Lhoka’s Tradruk monastery, the secular management office has obtained funds for the latest renovation of this 12-century-old institution, one of the earliest Buddhist constructions in Tibet. en August 8, 2022 Roxanne Liu; Ryan Woo China's Tibet region faces rare COVID flareup, fresh curbs imposed Toby Chopra; Bernadette Baum https://web.archive.org/web/20220808165624/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/lhasa-city-detects-18-individuals-tested-positive-covid-19-preliminary-screening-2022-08-08/ 08 August 2022 w:Reuters Asia Pacific A woman walks in a purpose built village for Tibetans who have been relocated from high-altitude locations in what the authorities call a poverty alleviation program during a government organised tour in Gongga County, Lhoka City, near Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, October 14, 2020. en 10/11/2022 Sangyal Kunchok Two reported dead from ‘rodent plague’ in Tibet w:Radio Free Asia https://web.archive.org/web/20221011194255/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/plague-10112022152213.html https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/plague-10112022152213.html October 11, 2022 The two victims, who lived in Lhoka city in Lhoka (in Chinese, Shannan) prefecture’s Tsona (Cuona) county, both died in September, a source living in the region told RFA, adding that neither has been publicly identified. Translations Shannan