Potala Palace, Tibet
Anna D.
Location
HIstory
Two parts of the Palace known as the (Potrang Karpo) white palace was built in 1948. And the (Potrang Marpo) red palace was built between 1990 - 1994.
Description of Potala Palace
The Palace is 13 stories high (117 meters high) and it has more than 1,000 rooms.
Mainly the Potala palace consists of wood and stone, the walls are granite and the roof have beautiful carvings about Buddhism.
Most of the Potala Palace artwork has 698 murals on the wall and long corridors describing tibet's history, and Tangkas in which are religious figures, Buddhist doctrines and crafts explaining Ttibetan life.
Map of Potala Palace
King Sangstan Gambo and Princess Wencheng
Red Palace
White Palace
History
Dahlia Lama Stupas
Dahlia Lama
After the constant war of the fall of the Potala Palace and tubo king, in the 17th century The Dahlia Lama rebuilt palace but also had help from the Qing Empire. By moving a government known as the Drepung Monastery to the Palace it gave it the power to become the center of Buddhism for Tibet.
Red Palace
The Red Palace is know for being a house of prayer dedicated to the study and advancement in Buddhism. It has chambers to worship Buddha and eight large stupas standing tall, in which all contain the fifth of dalai lama all covered in a gold foil. The Potala Palace is sacred for tibetan Buddhism in which the Red palace consists of a complicated layout of buddhist halls, libraries, chapels, jeweled work, several shrines and tombs of the eight Dahlia Lama.
White Palace
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