Kham

kham khảm khăm English thumb|The three traditional regions of Tibet. Pronunciation en /kʌm/ UK,US en come cum en ʌm 1 Etymology 1 en bo ཁམས. Pronunciation kämKham 936 1 Kham (käm), Chinese Kang or K’ang (käng),Sometimes spelled Kam. Proper noun en traditional region ar/Tibet ; traditional region p/Sichuan,Qinghai,Yunnan One of the three <<traditional regions>> of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the <<ar:Suf/Tibet>>, western parts of <<p/Sichuan>>, and smaller parts of <<p/Qinghai,Yunnan>>. en 1996 Whitney Stewart The Chinese Takeover The 14th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet https://archive.org/details/14thdalailamaspi00stew/ Minneapolis w:Lerner Publications 0-8225-4926-3 95-17221 32431075 86 https://archive.org/details/14thdalailamaspi00stew/page/86/ In the summer of 1956, Chinese troops bombed a large monastery in the eastern Kham region. The Chinese had begun to destroy the religious and cultural artifacts of Tibet. en August 21, 2008 China to crack down on use of leanness enhancers in cattle and sheep https://web.archive.org/web/20220517150744/https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-35118720080821 17 May 2022 w:Reuters Top News The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told the French newspaper Le Monde that the army opened fire during a protest in the eastern Tibetan region of Kham on Monday.“We know about disturbances in the Kham region. But we do not have any details or figures about injuries or deaths,” said the aide, Chhime Chhoekyapa, in the northern town of Dharamsala.“The military presence in Tibet is old, but the frenzy of new construction in the Amdo and Kham regions makes me say that this colonisation by the army is designed to last,” he said. en 02/23/2011 Adrienne Woltersdorf (sb) Tibetans searching for a future beyond the Dalai Lama Thomas Baerthlein w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20210525002001/https://www.dw.com/en/tibetans-searching-for-a-future-beyond-the-dalai-lama/a-6447461 May 25, 2021 https://www.dw.com/en/tibetans-searching-for-a-future-beyond-the-dalai-lama/a-6447461 Asia For Samdhong Rinpoche, this tour around the world is also his last trip as PM, now that his term is over and cannot be extended. He has decided to take his future after March 20 as it comes. If he could do what he wanted, he would go back to his home monastery in Kham, where he has not returned since 1959 and where he used to sit under the trees and meditate as a young man. He said, "they are wonderful and they are still standing." en July 12, 2021 Stuart Butler Scattered Among the Himalaya, Glimpses of a Changing Tibet w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20210712090618/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/travel/tibetan-culture.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/travel/tibetan-culture.html July 12, 2021 0362-4331 1645522 Much of what is today the mountainous western part of China’s Sichuan Province was, before the 1950 takeover, politically and culturally a part of Tibet, known as Kham.While the arrival of thousands of international tourists brings environmental and social changes, it has also allowed families to remain in the mountains and to profit off the nature around them and Tibetan culture.A case in point would be the nomadic Tibetan family I met on the grasslands of the Kham region, who, working side by side with a local guesthouse, were offering tourists the chance to stay with them in their traditional yak-wool tent and learn something of traditional Tibetan nomadic life. Related terms en Khampa Translations region of Tibet Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 康區 Kāngqū Manchu: mnc ᠺᠠᠮᡠ Polish: pl Kham m-in Russian: ru Кам m, ru Кхам m Tibetan: bo ཁམས་ See also en Amdo Ü-Tsang References Etymology 2 en lo ຄຳ. Proper noun s en Lao. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Kham is the 38155th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 581 individuals. Kham is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (86.4%) individuals. Further reading Kham, Kam en 1998 Kham Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1545 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1545/ 3 Sometimes spelled Kam. Anagrams en ahkm HKMA