WHAT'S IN A TIBETAN NAME?

Credit: NAVERUS/BO JIANG
Regarding the article about the new airport in Tibet, "The Future of Navigation on the Roof of the World" (AW&ST Sept. 25, p. 52), the Chinese name for the airport site, "Linzhi," is a bad transliteration from Tibetan to Chinese to English of the name that is more accurately transliterated directly...

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