Lhoka

English

Alternative forms

• Lhokha

Etymology

From Tibetan ལྷོ་ཁ (lho kha).

Proper noun

Lhoka

1. A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

   Synonym: Shannan

   • 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 Information Service of India, →OCLC, Communist China: Regional Affairs, page DDD 7:

     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 mechanized farming despite elaborate manuals being dispatched along [with] the Chinese tractors to the area. It seems Tibetans are quicker in condemning political shakeups than learning technical knowhow.

   • 2003 September 19, Philip P. Pan, “In the Name of the Panchen Lama”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 January 2024‎^[2]:

     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 has only one name. "They won't be well-educated because they won't have physics or chemistry or other modern subjects."

   • 2012 April 7, Edward Wong, “China Said to Detain Returning Tibetan Pilgrims”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 7, 2012, Asia Pacific‎^[4]:

     On Tuesday, Radio Free Asia, which is financed by the United States government, reported that a large number of the detainees being held in Lhasa had been released that day, while at least 200 others being held in Lhoka, outside Lhasa, were still in custody.

   • 2015 September 30, Artiz Parra, “China micromanages Tibet, floods it with money to woo locals”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on March 23, 2024‎^[6]:

     Dawa, a 55 year-old herder resettled in Lhoka prefecture’s Gongkar county, proudly showed visiting officials and journalists how each member of the family now has a separate room. […]
     In Lhoka’s Tradruk monastery, the secular management office has obtained funds for the latest renovation of this 12-century-old institution, one of the earliest Buddhist constructions in Tibet.

   • 2022 August 8, Roxanne Liu, Ryan Woo, “China's Tibet region faces rare COVID flareup, fresh curbs imposed”, in Toby Chopra, Bernadette Baum, editors, Reuters‎^[7], archived from the original on 08 August 2022, Asia Pacific‎^[8]:

     A woman walks in a purpose built village for Tibetans who have been relocated from high-altitude locations in what the authorities call a poverty alleviation program during a government organised tour in Gongga County, Lhoka City, near Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, October 14, 2020.

Translations

Shannan — see Shannan