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    • The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994. The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. The 5th Dalai Lama started its co… See more

    History

    The site on which the Potala Palace rises is built over a palace erected by Songtsen Gampo on the Red Hill. The Potala contains two chapels on its northwest corner that conserve parts of the original building. One is the Phak… See more

    Architecture

    Built at an altitude of 3,700 m (12,100 ft), on the side of Ri Marpo ('Red Mountain') in the centre of Lhasa Valley, the Potala Palace, with its vast inward-sloping walls broken only in the upper parts by straight rows of ma… See more

    LocationLhasa, Tibet, China
    Leadership14th Dalai Lama
    FounderSongtsen Gampo
    Date established1649
    The Lhasa Zhol Pillars

    Lhasa Zhol Village has two stone pillars or rdo-rings, an interior stone pillar or doring nangma, which stands within the village fortification walls, and the exterior stone pillar or doring chima, which originally stood outside the … See more

    Gallery

    • View showing recent Western Gate shops, highway, 2015
    • View of the Potala from behind, seen from Ching Drol Chi Ling
    • Potala Palace with Lhasa in the foreground … See more

    See also

    • Patala, Patala/Potala
    • Norbulingka, the Dalai Lama's former summer palace
    • Jokhang Temple Monastery
    • Dhvaja… See more

    Footnotes

    1. ^ Stein, R. A. Tibetan Civilization (1962). Translated into English with minor revisions by the author. 1st English edition by Faber & Faber, London (1972). Reprint: Stanford University Press (1972), p. 84
    2. ^ Laird, Thomas. (2… See more

    External links

    • Official website
    • Potala Palace at UNESCO.org
    • Potala Palace with related biographies, art, and timelines (The Treasury of Lives)… See more

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