The earliest evidence of the use of the name Lhasa in place of Resa is found in an inscription on a stone tablet set up in A.D. 806 at Gehui Temple on the south bank of Lhasa River.

• “拉萨”两字最早见诸文献，是806年立于拉萨河南岸噶回寺前的石碑碑文；