Editing Lhasa (section)

==Toponymy==
Lhasa literally translates to "place of gods" ({{lang|bo|ལྷ}} {{Transliteration|bo|lha}}, god; {{lang|bo|ས}} {{Transliteration|bo|sa}}, place) in the [[Lhasa Tibetan|Tibetan language]]. Chengguan literally translates to "urban gateway" ({{lang-zh|s=城关|p=Chéngguān}}) in the Chinese language. Ancient Tibetan documents and inscriptions demonstrate that the place was called Rasa ({{lang|bo|ར་ས}}),<ref name="Lhasa and the Soul of Tibet">{{cite web |url=https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/lhasa-and-the-soul-of-tibet |title=Lhasa and the Soul of Tibet |website=www.stephenbatchelor.org |language=en-gb |access-date=9 October 2018 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803040950/https://www.stephenbatchelor.org/index.php/en/lhasa-and-the-soul-of-tibet |url-status=dead}}</ref> which meant "goat's place", as it was a herding site.<ref name="Lhasa and the Soul of Tibet"/><ref name="[[Social Sciences Literature Press]] 2014 p. 246">{{cite book | title=古城拉萨市区历史地名考 | publisher=[[Social Sciences Literature Press]] | year=2014 | isbn=978-7-5097-5179-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpiFEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 | language=zh | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=246}}</ref><ref name="中国作家协会. 湖北分会 湖北省作家协会 中山市完美日用品有限公司 2007 p.">{{cite book | author=中国作家协会. 湖北分会 | author2=湖北省作家协会 | author3=中山市完美日用品有限公司 | title=長江文藝 | publisher=《长江文艺》 编辑部 | issue=nos. 7-12 | year=2007 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M27lAAAAMAAJ | language=zh | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=68}}</ref> The name was changed to Lhasa, which means "place of gods", upon its establishment as the capital of [[Tibet]], and construction of the [[Jokhang]] temple was completed, which housed a holy statue of the Buddha.<ref>Anne-Marie Blondeau and Yonten Gyatso, 'Lhasa, Legend and History,' in Françoise Pommaret-Imaeda (ed.)Lhasa in the seventeenth century: the capital of the Dalai Lamas, ''BRILL'', 2003, pp.15–38, pp.21–22.</ref><ref>John Powers, ''Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism'', Snow Lion Publications, 2007, p.144.</ref> Lhasa is first recorded as the name, referring to the area's temple of Jowo, in a treaty drawn up between China and Tibet in 822 C.E.<ref>Anne-Marie Blondeau and Yonten Gyatso, 'Lhasa, Legend and History,' pp.21–22.</ref> In some old European maps, where Tibet is depicted, a town under the name ''Barantola'' can be come up with; this town has mostly been suggested to be Lhasa, at other times to refer to modern Bulantai/Boluntay in the western part of the [[Qinghai]] province.<ref name="Burton 2020 p. 407">{{cite book | last=Burton | first=A. | title=The Bukharans: A Dynastic, Diplomatic and Commercial History 1550-1702 | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-136-78861-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhUHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA407 | access-date=2024-03-13 | page=407}}</ref>