Garzê
See also: garze
English
Alternative forms
- Garze
Etymology
From Tibetan དཀར་མཛེས (dkar mdzes).
Proper noun
Garzê
- An autonomous prefecture of Sichuan, China.
- 1987, Geotectonic Evolution of China, →ISBN, OCLC 456489958, OL 2097044M, page 82:
- Recently, clues of mélanges have been found in the Garzê area.
- 1992, Robert Strauss, “Kham & the Sichuan Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet), 2nd edition, →ISBN, OCLC 1119739225, page 155:
- The main Tibetan areas in Sichuan are now designated as Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Muli Tibetan Autonomous County.
- 2020, Liu, Xiaoyuan, To the End of Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959, →ISBN, OCLC 1198931308:
- Regardless, Beijing was presented with a piece of material evidence that new troubles were fermenting in Tibet. At the time, a Buddhist scripture allegedly emerged from a Garzê monastery, predicting ominously: "In the Year of Pig (1959) the world will become one of the beasts, and religion will decline. In the Year of Rat (1960) the Heaven will speak, and Bodhisattvas will come from all directions."
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- A county of Garzê prefecture, Sichuan, China.
- [2022 February 16, Kang, Dake; Sam McNeil, “This time, Tibet stands silent as Olympics return to China”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 February 2022:
- “No foreigners are allowed in,” said Jampa, the deputy head of Garze county’s foreign affairs office, before ordering the journalist taken by car to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, a 10-hour drive away, where he was released. […]
As word of the bloodshed spread, demonstrations erupted across the Tibetan plateau. One day, they came to Drago county, which borders Garze on the plateau’s eastern reaches in Sichuan. […]
Kesang Lamdark, a Tibetan artist living in Switzerland and the son of a renowned monk from Garze, said the dream of a free Tibet crashes against the reality of the Chinese police state. […]
Jampa of the Garze county foreign affairs office said he had not heard of the demolitions, and denied any restrictions on faith. Religious freedoms are protected by the Chinese constitution, he said, “like in America.”]
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Translations
autonomous prefecture in west China
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Anagrams
- Zager, gazer, graze