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Ölkha Dzingchi (Lhoka)

The Lhoka (Lhokha) region of south-central Tibet was the birthplace, in 1856–57, of Trinley Gyatso, the Twelfth Dalai Lama; sources place his birth in the Ölkha area of Lhoka. He died in his teens.

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