See Lhoka on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1966 June 23 [1966 June 21], “Buddhist Describes Lhasa Under Chinese Rule”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 121, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Delhi Information Service of India, →OCLC, Communist China: Regional Affairs, page DDD 7:",
"text": "Meanwhile, Radio Lhasa announced on 18 June that advisory committees in all Tibetan villages had sent memorandums condemning counterrevolutionaries and royalists and pledging full support to Mao. Paradoxically, it was also announced that farmers in the Lhoka area were slow in adapting themselves to mechanized farming despite elaborate manuals being dispatched along [with] the Chinese tractors to the area. It seems Tibetans are quicker in condemning political shakeups than learning technical knowhow.",
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"text": "The government is also trying to end the rural tradition of sending children to study in the monasteries, arguing that they should attend secular schools. \"In the monasteries, they only learn Tibetan and the sutras,\" said Deji, the top government official in Lhoka prefecture, who like many Tibetans has only one name. \"They won't be well-educated because they won't have physics or chemistry or other modern subjects.\"",
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"text": "A woman walks in a purpose built village for Tibetans who have been relocated from high-altitude locations in what the authorities call a poverty alleviation program during a government organised tour in Gongga County, Lhoka City, near Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, October 14, 2020.",
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