Lhoka

Proper noun

Lhoka

1. A prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 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...1966 June 23 [1966 June 21], “Buddhist Describes Lhasa Under Chinese Rule”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 121, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Delhi...
   • 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...2003 September 19, Philip P. Pan, “In the Name of the Panchen Lama”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024

   Synonyms:

   Shannan