Yarlung Tsangpo
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Yarlung Tsangbo
- The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- 1998, George B. Schaller, Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe[1], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:
- The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east.
- 2016 June 18, Edward Wong, “China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-18, Asia Pacific[4]:
- In October, China began operating the giant Zangmu Dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, upsetting India and Bangladesh because the river is an important waterway in their countries.
- 2021 February 8, Oliver Lees, “China to build the world’s biggest dam on sacred Tibetan river”, in Al-Jazeera[5], archived from the original on 8 February 2021[6]:
- In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for a 60-gigawatt mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).[...]The Yarlung Tsangpo is of particular significance, as it represents the body of the goddess Dorje Phagmo, one of the highest incarnations in Tibetan culture.
Translations
[edit]river in Tibet
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Further reading
[edit]- “Yarlung Tsangpo” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.