ནས་ཀྱི་གླིང་། | Glossary of Terms

ནས་ཀྱི་གླིང་།

nas kyi gling

yavanadvīpa

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Yavanadvīpa

The Basket’s Display

Yavanadvīpa

ནས་ཀྱི་གླིང་།

nas kyi gling

yavanadvīpa

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Literally “The Barley Islands,” this refers to the land of the Greeks, whose empire at one time extended along the northern coasts of the Persian gulf as far as India.

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