Amdo
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Definitions
- 1 One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between nearly all of Qinghai, and smaller parts of Gansu and Sichuan, China.
"Rgyal-sras is said to have explained to him in a prophetic manner what he was destined to achieve and how he should proceed to Amdo, for the purpose of founding monasteries and temples there, and also for diffusing Buddhism in China."
- 2 A county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
"One account of a religious movement organized around spirit-possession and magical practices with millenarian overtones comes from official Chinese sources. A report was distributed among Party officials in 1982 documenting the suppression of the "Heroes of Ling" (gling gi dpa' brtul) movement in Amdo county, a nomadic area 300 km. north of Lhasa."
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More examples"Rgyal-sras is said to have explained to him in a prophetic manner what he was destined to achieve and how he should proceed to Amdo, for the purpose of founding monasteries and temples there, and also for diffusing Buddhism in China."
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཨ་མདོ (a mdo).
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