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ngari1
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- A prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
I had met him in Ngari in 1997, when he was Commissioner of Ngari Prefecture, and struck up a friendship with him through our mutual love of photography.
Dreams of Snow Land
2005, Weidong (成卫东) Cheng, 雪域寻梦 [Dreams of Snow Land], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1873 more examples
Tibet is divided into four parts; Ngari (Neri), a pretty large country, is the fourth ; it lies to the south, and borders on countries inhabited by people who are known by the names of Lataka and Gougoutsie.
1827, George Timkowski, Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China in the Years 1820-1821, volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 444My first step was to contact a colleague from Hong Kong, the sexologist Li Kai-Sing, whose work in Tibet before the Communist takeover had earned him an international reputation as an authority on polyandry. He promptly contacted a Ngari herdsman name Lo Wu, who had worked with him in the past and who was a member of a love commune which numbered eighteen wives and forty-three husbands. Lo Wu agreed to introduce me to all the members of his commune, and to assist me in every way possible as I attempted to gather the data I sought. My next step was to learn everything I could about the Ngari herdsmen's culture and social mores, so that when I finally did arrive in Tibet I'd be able to meet my subjects on what was more or less their own level. Unfortunately, the literature on Ngari culture and social mores was scant, because very few investigators other than Li Kai-Sing had set foot in that godforsaken corner of the world.
1968, Troy Conway, Keep It Up, Rod!, Warner Communications, published 1973, →OCLC, page 10At the same time, in the western areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Ngari area also launched a Buddhism revival movement. As it appeared on the upper route of the Ngari area, Tibetologists called it the ^([sic]) "the upper route spread of Tibetan Buddhism".
Ga Zangjia
2003, 尕藏加 [Ga Zangjia], Tibetan Religions (Series of Basic Information of Tibet of China), China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71Synonyms: Ali
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Origin
- Tibetanམངའ་རིས
- EnglishNgari
From Tibetan མངའ་རིས (mnga' ris).
More words from Tibetan
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Chinese Cantonese 阿里
- 阿里 (aa³ lei⁵)prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Chinese Mandarin 阿里
- 阿里 (Ālǐ)prefecture in Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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