Citations:Lhasa

English citations of Lhasa

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• [1889 November 14, The Bombay Gazette‎^[1], number 12771, Bombay, page 3, column 5; republished as The Leisure Hour, 1890, →OCLC, page 139, column 2:

  From Tsaidam, apparently, the travellers cross the range to which Prejevalsky gave the name of Marco Polo so as to strike the upper sources of the Kin Sha Kiang, which river they hope to follow to Batang, the Chinese frontier post on the main road from Pekin to Lhassa.]

• [1890 October, “The Literature of Tibet”, in Edinburgh Review‎^[2], volume CCCLII, page 390:

  Tibetan literature is chiefly Buddhistic, but not wholly so. The capital of Tibet, Lhásá ('the seat of the gods'), is indeed the Rome of Buddhism, and in no other country does that religion attract higher patronage, and nowhere else is its philosophy more ardently studied. Nevertheless, the whole of the inhabitants are not Buddhists.]

• 1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4‎^[3], New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 3:

  The earliest historical relic of the Tibetans—like that of many, perhaps of most, other races—is a weather-beaten stone, the Do-ring. It stands in the center of Lhasa, across the courtyard in front of the western doors of the Cathedral or Jokang, beneath the famous willow-tree.

• 1983 October 10, “Crime Wave Sweeps Communist Mainland”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XXIV, number 40, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  A group of Western reporters visiting Lhasa early last August found widespread evidence of Tibetan dissent and hatred of the Communist Chinese, who invaded and conquered Tibet in 1951.

• 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎^[5], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:

  The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June. While there is a limit to what we can do, we should do more than we have done.

• 2007 December 10, Hildegard Diemberger, When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet‎^[6], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 229:

  The Magnificent Lady said, “Without relying on means and wisdom together, no enlightment is possible, but if both means and wisdom come together, enlightment can be achieved.” She said that she wanted to continue the journey to Lhasa.

• 2021 June 5, “Fast track to the throne”, in The Economist‎^[7], volume 439, number 9248, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:

  The 37bn-yuan ($5.7bn) track extends from the region’s capital Lhasa eastward to the city of Nyingchi, which is Tibetan for “Throne of the Sun”.

• 2022 September 30, “How China uses zero-Covid policy to crack down on Tibetans”, in France 24‎^[8], archived from the original on 30 September 2022‎^[9]:

  There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown, instated on August 9.