Golog
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Tibetan མགོ་ལོག་་ (mgo log).
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
[edit]Golog
- A Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai, China.
- 2000 September, “Corrupt and Farcical Elections”, in Racial Discrimination in Tibet[1], Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, →OCLC, page 116:
- 41 year-old Thupten from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture confirmed this threat of punishment. “The people in my area were very discontent when an election was announced. We knew that the candidates selected had already been carefully vetted by higher Chinese officials, and that our ‘voting’ was mere lip-service to Chinese claims of democracy, but we did it anyway.
- 2004, Paul Hattaway, Peoples of the Buddhist World: A Christian Prayer Diary[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:
- The February 1982 National Geographic listed a figure of between 80,000 and 90,000 Gologs, living in six counties of the remote Golog Tibetan Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China. A total of 100,343 people lived in the Golog Prefecture in 1953, but by 1964 the population had diminished to only 56,071. Thousands of Golog migrated from the area. Thousands more were either killed in battle or starved to death by the Chinese army.
- 2009 March 22, David Barboza, “Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 May 2011, Asia Pacific[4]:
- The authorities, who said they had restored order in the region, said 6 people were arrested and 89 others had “surrendered” to the police. The attack involved monks from the Ragya Monastery in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Golog in Qinghai Province.
- 2019 September 13, “Tencent Sports Public Service Project Shines at FIBA World Cup”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 30 May 2022[6]:
- A non-profit project jointly initiated by Tencent Sports and the Yao Ming Foundation has brought students from Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province a long way to the court of 2019 FIBA World Cup, connecting audience members’ hearts together during the halftime.