Amdo

See also: ẩm độ

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཨ་མདོ (a mdo).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæmdəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑmdoʊ/
• Rhymes: -æmdəʊ
• Hyphenation: Am‧do

Proper noun

Amdo

The three traditional regions of Tibet.

1. One of the three traditional regions of Tibet covering a land area largely divided between nearly all of Qinghai, and smaller parts of Gansu and Sichuan.
   • 1889, Sarat Chandra Dás, “Life of Sum-pa Khan-po, also styled Yeśos-Dpal-hbyor, the author of the Reḥumig (Chronological Table)”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal‎^[1], volume LVIII, number II, Calcutta, →OCLC, page 38:

     Rgyal-sras is said to have explained to him in a prophetic manner what he was destined to achieve and how he should proceed to Amdo, for the purpose of founding monasteries and temples there, and also for diffusing Buddhism in China.

   • [1972, T. V. W., “TIBET”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1108, column 2:

     For centuries the area of ethnic Tibet was divided into the following: Dbus and Gtsang (comprising central Tibet), Mnga’-ris, Khams, and A-mdo. […] A-mdo, the northeastern part of ethnic Tibet, passed under Manchu control in 1724 following the suppression of a Mongol revolt against the throne. This area was officially incorporated into the Chinese provincial system as Ch’ing-hai Province in 1928.]

   • 1979 March 8, “Tibetan Discontent Grows”, in Congressional Record‎^[3], volume 25, number 4, Washington, D.C.: Government Publishing Office, page 4329:

     When the new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama was discovered in 1938 in Amdo Province a new reincarnation of the Panchen Lama was found in that same year and in the same province.

   • 1981, Tenzin Chodrak, “Seventeen Years in A Chinese Prison”, in SPEARhead‎^[4], number 11, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:

     The inmates of this vast prison were mostly Chinese. We heard that there used to be 300 Tibetans, all from the Amdo region of Tibet, who were imprisoned for taking up arms against the Chinese around 1956-57. Of the 300 Tibetan prisoners only two were alive in the prison when we arrived.

   • 2022 November 8, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Why Does This Tibetan Kitchen Also Cook Sichuan Food?”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-08, Food‎^[6]:

     The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province.

   • 2023 April 25, Murali Krishnan, “The Dalai Lama's 'kiss' controversy”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[7], archived from the original on April 25, 2023, Politics‎^[8]:

     "This particular playful tradition is apparently very common in the Amdo region in Tibet where the Dalai Lama is from."

2. A county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 1994, Ronald D. Schwartz, “Conclusion: The Dimensions of Tibetan Nationalism”, in Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising‎^[9], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:

     One account of a religious movement organized around spirit-possession and magical practices with millenarian overtones comes from official Chinese sources. A report was distributed among Party officials in 1982 documenting the suppression of the "Heroes of Ling" (gling gi dpa' brtul) movement in Amdo county, a nomadic area 300 km. north of Lhasa.

Translations

one of the three traditional regions of Tibet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安多 (zh) (Ānduō)

• Manchu: ᠠᠮᡩᠣᠣ (amdoo)
• Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ (a mdo)

county in Tibet Autonomous Region, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安多 (zh) (Ānduō)

• Manchu: ᠠᠮᡩᠣᠣ (amdoo)
• Tibetan: ཨ་མདོ (a mdo)

See also

• Kham
• Ü-Tsang

 

Anagrams

• DOMA, MOAD, Moad, OADM, OMAD, mado