Meanings
- A district of Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, China.
The area east of the Jokhang, with a short radius around the mosque, has retained a strong Muslim atmosphere. The rest is Chinese. In the west, an ugly industrial zone sprawls from Doilungdêqên past the Norbulinka to the Potala.
1992 February, Robert Strauss, “Lhasa”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, column 21 more example
(ii) Dolungdeqen-Lhunzhub Subregion[…] The northern belt runs from the southeast of Nam Co—Degen, east through Doilungdeqen County, passing south of Nam Co to Sangba; the middle and southern belts lie north and south of the Cretaceous red bed basin north of Lhasa.
[1988, Yin Jixiang, Xu Juntao, Liu Chengjie, Li Huan, “The Tibetan plateau: regional stratigraphic context and previous work”, in The Geological Evolution of Tibet: Report of the 1985 Royal Society-Academia Sinica Geotraverse of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, London: The Royal Society, sourced from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, volume 327 (no. 1594), pages 1–413, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36
Origin
- Tibetanསྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན
- EnglishDoilungdêqên
From Tibetan སྟོད་ལུང་བདེ་ཆེན (stod lung bde chen).
More words from Tibetan
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 堆龍德慶 /堆龙德庆
- 堆龍德慶 /堆龙德庆 (deoi¹ lung⁴ dak¹ hing³)district
Chinese Mandarin 堆龍德慶 /堆龙德庆
- 堆龍德慶 /堆龙德庆 (Duīlóngdéqìng)district
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Doilungdêqên. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Doilungd%C3%AAq%C3%AAn
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