Tibet
The Tibetan name for their land, Bod bod-, means "Tibet" or "Tibetan Plateau", although it originally meant the central region around Lhasa, now known in Tibetan as U. The Standard Tibetan pronunciation of Bod, [pho?], is transcribed Bho in Tournadre Phonetic Transcription, Bo in the THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription and Poi in Tibetan pinyin. Some scholars believe the first written reference to Bod "Tibet" was the ancient Bautai people recorded in the Egyptian Greek works Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st century CE) and Geographia (Ptolemy, 2nd century CE), itself from the Sanskrit form Bhautta of the Indian geographical tradition.
What area did Bod originally refer to?
central region around Lhasa
The Tibetan name for their land, Bod bod-, means "Tibet" or "Tibetan Plateau", although it originally meant the central region around Lhasa, now known in Tibetan as U.
Bod