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Of Horses and Motorbikes
Lilian Iselin, University of Bern
JIATS, no. 6 (December 2011), THL #T5716, pp. 429-450
Glossary (pp. 446-448)
© 2011 by Lilian Iselin, IATS, and THL

Glossary

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Note: The glossary is organized into sections according to the main language of each entry. The first section contains Tibetan words organized in Tibetan alphabetical order. To jump to the entries that begin with a particular Tibetan root letter, click on that letter below. Columns of information for all entries are listed in this order: THL Extended Wylie transliteration of the term, THL Phonetic rendering of the term, the English translation, the Chinese equivalent, and the type of term. To view the glossary sorted by any one of these rubrics, click on the corresponding label (such as “Phonetics”) at the top of its column.

Ka | Nga | Tha | Da | Pha | Ba | Ma | Dza | Ra | La | Sa | Ha | A | Chinese
Ka
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
rka chu Kachu  river 
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Nga
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
rnga ba bod rigs dang ch’ang rigs rang skyong khul Ngawa Börik dang Changrik Rongkyong KhülAba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Aba Zangzu Qiangzu Zizhizhou  (阿坝藏族羌族自治州)place 
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Tha
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
thang skor Tangkor Tang ke  (唐克)place 
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Da
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
deng sang gi ’tsho ba dengsanggi tsowamodern life  Term 
bde gi degicomfortable  Term 
bde ba dewasettlement  Term 
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Pha
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
phyug las chuklépastoral production station  Term 
phrul rta trültamotorbike  Term 
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Ba
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
’brog pa drokpapastoralist mumin  (牧民)Term 
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Ma
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
dmu dge bsam gtan rgya mtsho Mugé Samten Gyamtso  author 
rma chu MachuYellow River Huang he  (黄河)river 
rma chu rdzong Machu DzongMachu County Maqu xian  (玛曲县)place 
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Dza
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
’dzam thang rdzong Dzamtang DzongDzamtang County Rangtang xian  (壤塘县)place 

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Ra
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
ru skor rukorgroups of households  Term 
ru khags rukhakwork unit da dui  (大队)Term 
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La
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
la btsas laptséritual cairn, often on mountain top  Term 
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Sa
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
sog tshang Soktsang  place 
gsung ’bum pod gsum po bzhugs so Sungbum Pösumpo ZhuksoCollected Works: Volume Three  Text 
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Ha
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
lha sa Lhasa Lasa  (拉萨市)place 
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A
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
a mdo Amdo Anduo  (安多)place 
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Chinese
Extended WyliePhoneticsEnglishChineseType
  Chengdu  (成都市)place 
  Deng Xiaoping  (邓小平)Person 
  Gansu  (甘肃)place 
  Lanzhou  (兰州市)place 
 horse pasturage, settlement number seven ma chang  (马场)place 
  Sichuan  (四川)place 
 township xiang  (乡)Term 
 Opening up the Western Regions Xibu da kaifa  (西部大开发)Term 
 People’s Republic of China Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo  (中华人民共和国)place 

Note Citation for Page

Lilian Iselin, “Of Horses and Motorbikes: Negotiating Modernities in Pastoral A mdo, Sichuan Province,” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 6 (December 2011): , http://www.thlib.org?tid=T5716 (accessed ).

Note Citation for Whole Article

Lilian Iselin, “Of Horses and Motorbikes: Negotiating Modernities in Pastoral A mdo, Sichuan Province,” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 6 (December 2011): 429-450, http://www.thlib.org?tid=T5716 (accessed ).

Bibliography Citation

Iselin, Lilian. “Of Horses and Motorbikes: Negotiating Modernities in Pastoral A mdo, Sichuan Province.” Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 6 (December 2011): 429-450. http://www.thlib.org?tid=T5716 (accessed ).