Proper noun
One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, the other two being Ü-Tsang and Kham.
Tibetan province Amdo was the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.
A county of Nagqu, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAccording to the owner, the people of Amdo like this so much they do not hesitate to eat it for any meal, even breakfast! Source: Internet
Amdo came under Qing control in 1724, and eastern Kham was incorporated into neighbouring Chinese provinces in 1728. Source: Internet
For security reasons he was moved to Derge monastery and eventually, in 1716, now also backed and sponsored by the Kangxi Emperor he was taken to Amdo at the age of 8 to be installed in Kumbum Monastery with great pomp and ceremony. Source: Internet
Laird 2006, pp.140-145 After being given the Mongolian name 'Dalai', MacKay 2003, p.18 he returned to Tibet to found the great monasteries of Lithang in Kham, eastern Tibet and Kumbum in Amdo, north-eastern Tibet. Source: Internet
“This indicated that the reincarnation would be found to the northeast of Lhasa, meaning the Amdo region (mostly now contained in the Chinese province of Qinghai),” he says. Source: Internet
The earliest Tibetan historical texts identify the Zhang Zhung culture as a people who migrated from the Amdo region into what is now the region of Guge in western Tibet. Source: Internet