Mêdog (Tibetan: མེ་ཏོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 墨脱县), formerly known as Pemako (Tibetan: པདྨ་བཀོད་, Wylie: pad ma bkod, THL: Pémakö, ZWPY: Bämagö lit. "Lotus Array"), is a county of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Pemako is considered famous because it is the Nyingma master Dudjom Rinpoche's birthplace, and it is a prophesied refuge for Tibetan Buddhists by Padmasambhava.
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👉 Mêdog County in the context of Pei, Tibet
Pei is a town in Mainling County, Tibet Autonomous Region. The town is situated on the only road from Mainling to Mêdog, near the entrance to the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon. The population was 1,771 (2000).
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- ⭐ Core Definition: Mêdog County
- 👉 Mêdog County in the context of Pei, Tibet
- Mêdog County in the context of Lhoba people
Mêdog County in the context of Lhoba people
Lhoba (English translation: Southerners; Chinese: 珞巴族; pinyin: Luòbāzú; Standard Tibetan: ལྷོ་པ།) is any of a diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in and around Pemako, a region in southeastern Tibet including Mainling, Medog and Zayü counties of Nyingchi and Lhünzê County of Shannan, Tibet.
In 1965 the Chinese government officially recognised Lhoba as one of the 56 ethnic groups in China. Lhobas are one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in China. Numbering 4,237 people, they make up about 0.1% of the population of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
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