Meaning of Zêkog | Babel Free

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A county of Huangnan, Qinghai, China.

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“On the hill behind the Hor Monastery in Zekog County, Huangnan stand four large stone sutra walls. Known as the Hor Sutra Stone Walls, they are the largest of their kind in China.”

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“China’s official Xinhua news agency said the herdsman set himself alight late on Friday in the northwest province of Qinghai. It quoted local authorities as saying that the 26-year-old, identified as Dazheng, set himself ablaze in the village of Dageri in Zekog County.”

“A Tibetan man in his late twenties called Phagmo Samdup set himself on fire on February 5 in Dokarmo town in Tsekhog (Chinese: Zeku) in Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, the Tibetan area of Amdo, according to Tibetan sources. It is the first self-immolation of 2014, five years on from the first self-immolation in Tibet of Kirti monk Tapey in February, 2009. Phagmo Samdup set fire to himself at around 9.30 pm in the evening. It appears that not many people were outside to witness the self-immolation. Police on patrol extinguished the fire and took Phagmo Samdup away, and it is not known if he survived, Tibetan sources said, adding he had been taken to Tsekhog county town.”

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