ABSTRACT
THE country called in Tibetan works Li-yul has been diversely identified by Orientalists. Csoma takes it to be "a part of the Mongols' country;" Schiefner (Tib. Lebens 9akyan~., p. 327,1 and 1aranatha, p. 78) thinks that it was the Na-kie of Fah-Hien, Vakula of the Buddhist works; Wassilieff (Buddh., p. 74) says that it was" the Buddhist countries north of Tibet, and particularly Khoten;" Sarat Chandra Das (J. B . .A.. S., vol. i. p. 223) says, "Li-yul is identified with Nepal by the translators of Kahgyur. I have been able to ascertain that the ancient name of Nepal was Li-yul." 2
The following pages will superabundantly demonstrate, I think, that Wassilieff's opinion is correct, and that by Li-yul we must understand Eastern Turkestan, or that region surrounded by the Kuen-Iun, the Tung-lin, and the Thien-chan mountains, but more especially Khoten.
