"Gyangtse" meaning in English

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          "english": "Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation",
          "ref": "1984 [1983], Heinrich Harrer, “Return to Gyangtse”, in Wiedersehn mit Tibet [Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:",
          "text": "The market of Gyangtse, once a famous trading-post, has lost much of its former liveliness. Gyangtse used to be the place where the best carpets and textiles were made; a manufactory is again operating at the foot of the ancient fortress, but this now belongs to the commune, and the classical flower-motifs on the carpets have been replaced by dragons and other Chinese symbols.",
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          "ref": "1997 October 19, Karen Swenson, “Approaches To Tibet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2009-05-23, Travel:",
          "text": "Gyangtse, my favorite Tibetan town, half a day's journey farther southeast on this route, has not yet met that fate. A stroll down the main street between Tibetan houses topped by rippling prayer flags takes one to the monastery and the Kumbum, a white wedding-cake structure honeycombed with chapels whose walls are bright with 15th-century murals. It is the Ste.-Chapelle of Asia.",
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          "ref": "2009, John Strawson, Gentlemen in Khaki and Camouflage: the British Army 1890-2008, Pen & Sword, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 77:",
          "text": "Younghusband and his force stayed put, however, and then in March advanced again with a view to reaching his initial objective, Gyangtse, some 150 miles inside Tibet.[...]Nevertheless Younghusband and his force persevered. They skirmished their way to Gyangtse, and, reinforced by a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, entered Lhasa at the beginning of August, 1904.",
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          "ref": "2020 January 5, PATTARAWADEE SAENGMANEE, “Awakening from the quaking”, in Bangkok Post, archived from the original on 2022-05-27:",
          "text": "After sundown, we continued to Boudhanath Stupa in the east of Kathmandu. Built by Tibetan pilgrims, the capital city's largest Buddhist stupa was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979 and took its inspiration from the Gyangtse of Tibet.",
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          "english": "Return to Tibet: Tibet After the Chinese Occupation",
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          "text": "The market of Gyangtse, once a famous trading-post, has lost much of its former liveliness. Gyangtse used to be the place where the best carpets and textiles were made; a manufactory is again operating at the foot of the ancient fortress, but this now belongs to the commune, and the classical flower-motifs on the carpets have been replaced by dragons and other Chinese symbols.",
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          "text": "Gyangtse, my favorite Tibetan town, half a day's journey farther southeast on this route, has not yet met that fate. A stroll down the main street between Tibetan houses topped by rippling prayer flags takes one to the monastery and the Kumbum, a white wedding-cake structure honeycombed with chapels whose walls are bright with 15th-century murals. It is the Ste.-Chapelle of Asia.",
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          "text": "Younghusband and his force stayed put, however, and then in March advanced again with a view to reaching his initial objective, Gyangtse, some 150 miles inside Tibet.[...]Nevertheless Younghusband and his force persevered. They skirmished their way to Gyangtse, and, reinforced by a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, entered Lhasa at the beginning of August, 1904.",
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          "text": "After sundown, we continued to Boudhanath Stupa in the east of Kathmandu. Built by Tibetan pilgrims, the capital city's largest Buddhist stupa was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979 and took its inspiration from the Gyangtse of Tibet.",
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