Shigatse

English Shigatse Prefecture Alternative forms en Xigazê Xigaze Zhikatse Etymology From en bo གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ. Pronunciation shēgäʹtsě Proper noun en prefecture-level city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China. en 1905 w:Perceval Landon The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39124/ New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 221987720 444 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39124/page/n562/ Far different in character and general disposition is the Penchen Rinpoche (or, as generally called by us, the Tashi Lama) of the great monastery of Tashi-lhunpo near Shigatse. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-04-22_14_15/ April 22, 1973 Troops concentrate on Tibet-Sikkim border Free China Weekly XIV 15 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-04-22_14_15/page/n2/ Truck convoys, carrying troops as well as supplies, have been shuttling between Shigatse and the border area, the source said."Such traffic has also been very heavy on the Shigatse-Yatung highway and the Shigatse-Gartok highway," the source added. en 1990 Derek J. Waller The Pundits: British Exploration of Tibet and Central Asia https://archive.org/details/punditsbritishex0000wall/mode University Press of Kentucky 0-8131-1666-X 90-32802 925208829 48 https://archive.org/details/punditsbritishex0000wall/page/48/ The Pundit described Shigatse as being three-quarters of a mile long and half a mile wide, surrounded by fertile soil, with a population of nine thousand and garrisoned by a force of one hundred Chinese and four hundred Tibetan soldiers. en 2018 w:Central Tibetan Administration Tibet was Never a Part of China: but the Middle Way Approach Remains a Viable Solution https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Tibet-was-never-a-part-of-China.pdf New Delhi Norbu Graphics 978-93-82205-12-8 1104806455 147 In a similar case, on September 23, 2014, more than 1,000 local Tibetans of Dokar and Zibuk villages (Lhundrup County, Shigatse Prefecture) near Lhasa, the Tibetan capital city protested against the poisoning of their rivers by the Gyama Copper Poly-metallic Mine. https://web.archive.org/web/20191008054056/https://tibet.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Tibet-was-never-a-part-of-China.pdf 8 October 2019 May 15, 2020 Stephen Kurczy Tendol Gyalzur, Refugee Who Founded Orphanages in Tibet, Dies https://web.archive.org/web/20200515220014/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/obituaries/tendol-gyalzur-dead-coronavirus.html THOSE WE’VE LOST Tendol Gyalzur Tenzin Dolkar, who later began using Tendol, a variation of her first name, was born in the central Tibetan town of Shigatse (also known as Xigaze) on Dec. 2, 1951, according to her Swiss passport. en July 31, 2020 CIMC Sanctum provides 72 liquid oxygen storage tanks for oxygen-deficient Tibet https://web.archive.org/web/20220824174002/https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/8f9b1b6a992a7a077059038a9f33e132 24 August 2022 AP News, PR Newswire CIMC Sanctum has been providing liquid oxygen storage tanks for schools, hospitals, nursing homes, government buildings, police and fire stations in Lhasa, Naqu, Ngari and Shigatse and other areas since 2017. en SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 China planning building spree in Tibet as India tensions rise, sources say https://web.archive.org/web/20200905044129/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-investment-tibet/china-planning-building-spree-in-tibet-as-india-tensions-rise-sources-say-idUSKBN25V1KS 05 September 2020 w:Reuters Beijing also wants to push ahead with the Tibet-Nepal Railway linking Kathmandu with Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet, which was among a number of bilateral deals signed in 2018 between Nepal and China, but has yet to gain much traction. en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Rikaze, en Jih-k'a-tse, en Jih-k'o-tse Translations prefecture-level city in Tibet, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 日喀則 Rìkāzé Hindi: hi शिगात्से m Polish: pl Shigatse n Tibetan: bo གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ Further reading en 1952 Shigatse or Zhikatse Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1752 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1752/ 1