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Early December 1994, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet was included in the “World Heritage List.”

Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet on a hill northwest of Mabu, the famous castle-style buildings, ancient Tibetan architectural art of the essence.

Potala Palace was built in the 7th century, is the King Songtsan Gambo for the princess marrying into Tibet Tang Zhaowen built. Lhasa, 3,700 meters above sea level in the red hills of the construction of 999 housing Miyauchi – the Potala Palace. Castle hillside, is an area of 410,000 square meters, construction area of 130,000 square meters, Palace main building has 13 floors and 115 meters high, all the stone and wood structure, five bronze tile house roof covering lutetium, glittering , imposing, is the essence of Tibet tours ancient architectural art. Plateau known as the Temple.

Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace is the calendar the Winter Palace, is also ruler of theocratic rule over the last center of Tibet from the Dalai Lama, the major religious and political ceremonies are held, is also dedicated to the world calendar Dalai Lamas place.

Potala Palace, the mountains and assembled, group F, overlap, temples and towering, imposing, has turned out to sky gas consistent trend, a solid pier thick granite walls, white flat mushroom grass wall collar Ma , the magnificent golden dome, with a strong decorative effect of the huge gilded vase, buildings and streamer cross Xiangying Hui, red, white and yellow three types of color contrast, division co-construction, construction-type body layers socket embodied the charming features of Tibetan ancient buildings. Potala Palace is an outstanding representative of Tibetan architecture is the essence of Chinese ancient architecture for.

Design and construction of the palace under the law of sunlight at high altitude, wide and solid base of a wall, the wall base is easily accessible by the following authentic and vents. The house has columns, brackets, sparrow, beams, rafters, etc. to form support frame. Floor and covered roof is called “A’erga” hard soil, the top of the hall and the bedroom has a skylight, easy to light, mediation air. Palace’s and column there are various sculptures, colorful murals on the walls of an area of 2,500 square meters.

Intrauterine also unique collection of Tibet, in the cotton silk on the Thangka painting, and ancient relics. Potala Palace in 1961 was included in the national cultural heritage site in 1989, conducted a comprehensive building.

This splendid palace legend originated in the seventh century, when Tibet to marry the Tibetan King Songtsan the Tang Princess Wen Cheng, especially in the Red Hill above the nine-story palace built 1000, named the Potala Palace. Songtsan created by the demise of the Tubo Kingdom, the ancient castle are destroyed in most of the war, China World Heritage Tours until the seventh century AD, fifth Dalai Lama Karma Phodrang established the Qing dynasty and was officially sealed the Tibetan Government Politics leader before beginning the reconstruction of Potala Palace, when the year AD 1645. Successive Dalai Lama after they have been expanded, so the scale of the Potala Palace has become today.

Miyauchi Bonding, twists and turns, with the organic integration of the mountain, this is the Potala Palace gives the most direct feel. The appearance of 13 layers, from the foot up until the top. Mainly the eastern part of the overall architecture White House (residence of some of the Dalai Lama), the middle of the Red Palace (the house of Buddha and the Dalai Lama Lamas) and western white Sengfang (a confidant of the Dalai Lama Lama housing services) component. In the Red Palace wall before there is a white Buddha for the sun sets, this is the day when the Buddhist festivals, where Buddha used to hang large.

As a Tibetan Buddhist shrine, the pilgrims each year to the Potala Palace and countless tourist visitors always. They are generally no word from the foot of stone, the economic ups and downs jieshipu slope road, until a huge mural depicting the four King of the East gate, and thus a wall through the tunnel 4 m thick into the hall.

In the hillside, there a 1600-square-meter platform, which is the Dalai Lama ages enjoy singing and dancing establishments, called “Deyang Ha.” Thus while on the escalator corridor through Dasong Ge profile, then to the East Main Hall of the White House’s largest palace. Historical records, since 1653, the Qing Emperor Shunzhi gold book gold seal Chifeng fifth Dalai Lama, the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama have to be formally canonized by the central government, presided over by the high commissioners for his enthronement, China Historical Sites Tourreign and the ceremonies. Here is the successive Dalai Hing seated reign ceremony and other major religious, political events.

Red Palace is the house of the Dalai Lamas and various Buddhist temple. Total pagoda 8, in which V was the first Dalai Lama, and the largest one. It is recorded that only Xiang package that gold used pagoda reached 119,000 taels, and treated the Dalai Lama remains in the tower on the preservation of the body. West hall is the fifth Dalai Lama pagoda to enjoy the house church, which is the largest palace of red palace. In addition to dry lung hall coming to a decision, “Chung Lin first to” plaque, but also the preservation of the Kangxi Emperor is giving a pair of big beautiful Manzhang for rare treasures inside Potala Palace. To weave the legend of Emperor Kangxi of the mantle, have been specially built factory and labor for one year and was able to weave. The gallery upstairs hall from the west to the music on the bamboo node P (that is, amending the law Songtsan hole), this building is the seventh century Potala Palace, one of the most ancient buildings, which preserved Songtsan, Princess Wen Cheng and Minister of the statue. The maximum red palace palace 名叫萨松朗杰 (meaning win three realms), which enshrines the Qing Emperor Qianlong portrait and “Long live the” tablets. About starting from VII Dalaigesang Gyatso, the Dalai Lama first month of Tibetan calendar each year must come to the temple early morning pilgrimage to the memorial tablets of the emperor, as an indication of the emperor’s courtiers of their relationship.

Today, in the eyes of the Potala Palace, stone and wood, whether it is interlaced method of construction, or from the palace itself, its cultural perspective, can feel its uniqueness. It always seems to have been to people here impressed. Uniform granite walls; wooden roof and window canopies foreign provoked Alice design; all of gilt bronze decorative tile, and by Lection, Aquarius, Capricorn fish, Garuda decorative embellishment to do ridge … … All this seems a perfect match to the whole magnificent palace. The mural is considered a large hall inside the Potala Palace, a unique landscape, called a giant painting in the gallery, the only documented history of Buddhism in Tibet, but also V up to Laisheng Ping, Princess Wen Cheng Tibet process, there Tibet’s ancient architecture and a large Buddha image of King Kong, etc., it is a valuable historical picture is not too much.

Unique also is the holy Potala Palace. Because every time when it will be referred to naturally think of Tibet. In people’s minds, this condensed wisdom of the Tibetan laboring people who witnessed the ancient Chinese and Tibetan cultural buildings, has been given the glorious and majestic and sacred status of Tibetan Buddhism has become absolutely a symbol of the Tibetan people.

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