Potala
Palace on the top of the Potala Hill is the symbol of Lhasa. It was built
in the seventh century by King Songtsan Kambo for his bride, the Han nationality
Princess Wen Cheng. It has 999 rooms, plus the original red tower, one
thousand rooms in all. It has been repaired and renovated many times till
its present scale. Covering an area of 41 hectares, its stone-and -wood
main building has 13 stories, measuring 117 meters in height.
The palace has towering buildings with golden roofs and a group of huge
castle palaces, which
are divided into white and red ones for the color of their walls. The
White Place used to be a place where the living Buddha, Dalai, Tibet's
religious leader, handled government affairs and lived. The red one consists
of the Hall of the Buddha, the Scripture Hall and the Memorial Hall, each
with a dozen or scores of rooms. The Hall of the Buddha houses gold-traced
portraits of Sakyamuni and deceased Dalai Lamas; the Scripture Hall keeps
in it a large
number of early copies of Buddhist sutras; and the Memorial Hall contains
stupas of the 13 late Dalai Lamas.
Potala
Palace is also a world of murals, which are painted in hundreds of halls
and corridors. It is a huge treasure house for materials and articles of
Tibetan history, religion, culture and arts.
Potala
Palace on the top of the Potala Hill is the symbol of Lhasa. It was built
in the seventh century by King Songtsan Kambo for his bride, the Han nationality
Princess Wen Cheng. It has 999 rooms, plus the original red tower, one
thousand rooms in all. It has been repaired and renovated many times till
its present scale. Covering an area of 41 hectares, its stone-and -wood
main building has 13 stories, measuring 117 meters in height.
hich
are divided into white and red ones for the color of their walls. The
White Place used to be a place where the living Buddha, Dalai, Tibet's
religious leader, handled government affairs and lived. The red one consists
of the Hall of the Buddha, the Scripture Hall and the Memorial Hall, each
with a dozen or scores of rooms. The Hall of the Buddha houses gold-traced
portraits of Sakyamuni and deceased Dalai Lamas; the Scripture Hall keeps
in it a large
number of early copies of Buddhist sutras; and the Memorial Hall contains
stupas of the 13 late Dalai Lamas.