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six days to the west and south-west of the field we are at present endeavoring to occupy. One of the chief natural reasons for the incursion was the killing, by the Goloks, of several soldiers carrying official dispatches and seizing four or five thousand yaks belonging to the High Commissioner. The Goloks consisted of three groups and were a most haughty people, considering themselves impregnable, since they had never been subdued by the Chinese in all their history. But the Mohammedans with their up-to-date firearms practically annihilated one group, and the other two hastened to capitulate. It is reported, though that the first and most crushing blow was struck through treachery. The three groups were called together to tender their submission. The Goloks were suddenly attacked and a large number of them were killed. The remainder fled without making any attempt in their weakened condition to avenge their fallen friends. Then followed a chapter of awful bloodshed and cruelty. Men, women, and children were ruthlessly put to the sword and thousands were driven into the Yellow River to perish in its muddy water. A heavy indemnity was exacted, thousands of sheep, yaks, and horses driven away, and tons of wool confiscated. Thus is made safe for travel and missionary work a vast piece of country inhabited by thousands of nomads. We are praising God for the advance step He has enabled us to take.'
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The Golog sought to remain ungoverned by any polity, not Tibet, not Qing China. A Golog herder was heard saying in 1908, “We Golog have...from time immemorial obeyed none but our own laws,” A folk song recorded in 1951 asserted, “Against the orders of the Dharma King of Tibet I rebel! Against China I
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During the summer months God again used the Mohammedans of Western Kansu Province to answer more fully the prayers of His people for the last half century for the dark land of Tibet. In the month of April an expedition was launched by them against the wild Goloks, occupying a large territory five or
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army, with its modern weaponry, retaliated in draconian fashion and exterminated a group of Goloks, and then convoked the Golok tribes for negotiations, only to slaughter them. A Christian missionary, in writing of the Muslim army's extermination of the Goloks as an act of God, wrote of the events
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The Chinese had never been able to control the Goloks before, some areas of which owed allegiance to Labrang, but many others which were completely independent. Occasional ambushes killed soldiers of the
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After Tibetans attacked the Ninghai Muslim army in 1922 and 1923, the Ninghai army returned in 1924 and crushed the Tibetans, killing numerous Tibetans.
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The Golok were renowned in both Tibet and China as ferocious fighters free from Tibetan and Chinese control. The name Golok (
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The Golok are not an homogeneous group but are composed of peoples of very different geographic origins across the
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Norbu, Namkhai. Journey among the Tibetan Nomads. 3. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1997.
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Rock, Joseph. The Amnye Ma-Chhen Range and Adjacent Regions: A MonographicStudy. 127. Rome: IsMEO, 1956.
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Nomads of eastern Tibet: social organization and economy of a pastoral estate in the kingdom of Dege
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Kornman, Robin. (2005) "The Influence of the Epic of King Gesar on Chogyam Trungpa," in
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region. The Golok was a haven for refugees and immigrants from all over the Amdo and
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Labrang: a Tibetan Buddhist monastery at the crossroads of four civilizations
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In 1828 when the great mystic and poet of early 19th century Amdo,
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Thupten Chokor Ling Monastery - The Great Stupa for World Peace.
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and they are an amalgamation of peoples of diverse origin.
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Rowell, Galen (February 1982). "Nomads of China's West".
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