Potala Palace

Potala Palace

Year

1694

Type

building

Tibetan dzong rising 119 metres above Marpo Ri, the Red Hill in central Lhasa, begun in 1645 under the Fifth Dalai Lama on the site of a seventh-century palace of King Songtsen Gampo. The White Palace (Potrang Karpo), the secular and admini …

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