Meanings
- A county of Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, China.
Chinese mining operations have already damaged the environment in Lhundrub (Linzhou) county outside Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa, destroying farmers’ fields and forcing herders to move away from traditional grazing areas, Tibetan sources say.
[2013 August 14, Thupten Sangay, Thondup Dorjee, Richard Finney, “Livestock 'Indiscriminately' Killed in Tibet Amid Fears of Disease”, in Karma Dorjee, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2013, News1 more example
In December 2020, Lhundrub county of Lhasa launched a lecture series on “Reincarnation of Living Buddhas” and on the “four standards to become exemplary monks and nuns,” the highlight of which was, as reported in the Tibet Daily, to emphasize that reincarnation of the 14th Dalai Lama must be “domestically searched, drawn from the Golden Urn, and approved by the central government.”
[2021 March 10, Apa Lhamo, “Why the Chinese Communist Party Sees Tibetan Monks as ‘Troublemakers’”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2021, Features
Origin
- Tibetanལྷུན་གྲུབ
- EnglishLhünzhub
From Tibetan ལྷུན་གྲུབ (lhun grub).
More words from Tibetan
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Chinese Cantonese 林周
- 林周 (lam⁴ zau¹)county
Chinese Mandarin 林周
- 林周 (Línzhōu)county
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Lhünzhub. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lh%C3%BCnzhub
“Lhünzhub.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lh%C3%BCnzhub. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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