Medog

Medog

English

Alternative forms

• Mêdog (official)
• Metok

Etymology

From Tibetan མེ་ཏོག (me tog).

Proper noun

Medog

1. A county of Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 2002, McRae, Michael, The Siege of Shangri-La‎, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, LCCN 2002025871, OCLC 834289409, OL 8064349M, page 124:

     Their trek took them across the snowbound Gawalung pass from the Lhasa-Sichuan road and then south along the Tsangpo to Medog, a garrison town near the Indian border.

   • 2005, Cheng Weidong (成卫东), Dreams of Snow Land (雪域寻梦)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 245560234, page 135:

     At present, there are only three routes to Medog on foot.

   • 2020 March 1, Yang, J. et al., “Medicinal and edible plants used by the Lhoba people in Medog County, Tibet, China”, in Journal of Ethnopharmacology‎, volume 249, DOI:10.1016/j.jep.2019.112430, article 112430:

     The Lhoba people are a small, ancient, tribal ethnic group from the Himalayas and are located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Medog County is rich in biocultural diversity. For a long time, Medog has been almost isolated from the outside world. The Lhoba people, who live in Medog, have maintained a relatively unique lifestyle and have accumulated rich traditional knowledge (TK), especially about medicinal and edible plants.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Medog.

Translations

county in Tibet Autonomous Region, China

Chinese: Mandarin: 墨脫 (zh) (Mòtuō) Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག (me tog)

Anagrams

• Dogme