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Tibetan Word of the Day

Our Tibetan word of the day is Rum-yül, the language’s traditional word for “Europe”.

The word literally means “Rome-land”, giving a certain Bellocian tone to the Tibetan language — it was Belloc, after all, who said “Europe is the Faith; the Faith is Europe”.

Published at 8:02 pm on Monday 30 November 2009. Categories: Errant Thoughts World Tags: , .
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