section_path: Years/Years with cardinal numbers
section_name: Years with cardinal numbers
paragraph_text: Years with cardinal numbers
  
  Three relatively modern notations of cardinal numbers are used for Tibetan years.
  
  On Tibetan banknotes from the first half of the 20th century cardinal numbers can be seen, with year 1 in 255 CE, which is a reference to the legendary 28th Emperor of Tibet, Thothori Nyantsen.
  
  Since the second half of the 20th century another year notation has been used, where the year of, for example, 2025 CE coincides with the Tibetan year of 2152. This relatively modern year notation is referred to as Bö Gyello (bod rgyal lo). In this era the first year is 127 BCE, dated to the legendary progenitor of the Yarlung dynasty, Nyatri Tsenpo.
  
  In Tibetan calendars of the second half of the 20th century and on Tibetan coins cardinal year numbers are found with the indication of raplo, where the first year coincides with the first year of the rabjyung -cycle, that is 1027. Rab lo 928, for example, is the year of 1954 on the western Gregorian calendar.