Yarlung Tsangpo

English

Alternative forms

• Yarlung Zangbo

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/, /- ˈtsɑːŋpəʊ/

Proper noun

Yarlung Tsangbo

1. 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.

   • 2015, Chris Kuzneski, The Prisoner's Gold‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 232:

     A forty-minute drive through the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley took the team from the airport to the city of Lhasa.

   • 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

river in Tibet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雅魯藏布江／雅鲁藏布江 (zh) (Yǎlǔzàngbù Jiāng)

• Tibetan: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po)

Further reading

• “Yarlung Tsangpo” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.