From the above we can have some idea of how the name of the city first began as Resa or Goat carrying Earth with its Chinese transliteration of Luoxie and then was formalized as Lhasa or the Holy Land.

• 这就是从山羊背土建成“惹萨”、汉译的“罗些”到圣地“拉萨”的来龙去脉。