Jih-k'a-tse

Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.

1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198

The cousins separated, and Nain Singh joined a caravan posing as a merchant. This time he crossed the border successfully. Singh eventually entered Jih-k’a-tse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was in Jih-k’a-tse that he was summoned to meet the country’s second-highest religious authority, the Panchen Lama, who turned out to be only 11 years old.

1995, Explorers & Discoverers, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753

She visited the monastery of Tashilumpo, now called Jih-k’a-tse, which is the residence of the panchen Lama, the secondranking Tibetan lama.

1996, “Alexandra David-Neel”, in Peggy Saari, editor, Prominent Women of the 20th Century, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 276