Lhamo La-tso

Lhamo Latso or Lha-mo La-tso is a small oval oracle lake where senior Tibetan monks of the Gelug sect go for visions to assist in the discovery of reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas.
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  • Body of water
  • …lies at an elevation of 5,126 metres (16,818 feet)
  • Description: lake in Cuijiu, Gyatsa County, Lhoka, Tibet, China
  • Also known as
    “lamu lacuo hu”
    “Lhamoi Laco”
    “Oracle Lake”
    “拉姆拉错 ལྷ་མོའི་བླ་མཚོ”

Lhamo La-tso

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Latitude
29.51695° or 29° 31′ 1″ north
Longitude
92.73832° or 92° 44′ 18″ east
Open location code
7MXJGP8Q+Q8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27173677
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Geo­Names ID
6559376
Wiki­data ID
Q1839896

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Venetian—“Lhamo La-tso” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “lāmǔlā cuò”
  • Chinese: “拉姆拉错”
  • Dutch: “Lhamo Latso”
  • French: “Lhamo-Latso”
  • German: “Lamola Co”
  • German: “Lamulacuo”
  • German: “Lhamo Latso”
  • German: “Lhamoi Laco”
  • German: “Lhamola Co”
  • German: “Lhamola Tso”
  • Hungarian: “Lhamo La-co”
  • Italian: “Lhamo Latso”
  • Japanese: “ラモイ・ラツォ湖”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lhamo La-tso”
  • Norwegian: “Lhamo La-tso”
  • Panjabi: “ਲ੍ਹਾਮੋ ਲਾ-ਸੋ”
  • Polish: “Lhamo Laco”
  • Portuguese: “Lhamo Latso”
  • Russian: “озеро Лхамё-Лацо”
  • Swedish: “Lhamola Co”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷ་མོ་བླ་མཚོ”
  • Tibetan: “ལྷ་མོའི་བླ་མཚོ”
  • Venetian: “Lhamo Latso”

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