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Potala Palace

In the 7th century, when King Songtsen Gampo is said to have first laid the foundation of the Potala Palace, where he participated in the practice of Chenrezik meditation for a long time. There are many magnificent rooms for the kings and queens in the complex. Later, during the period of the Fifth Dalai Lama, Desi Sanggyé Gyatso built the white palace on the foundation of the original temple, after which the complex became the center of politics and religion. The Potala is a great treasure trove of Tibetan culture and art, and it is also an important world heritage site. The palace has many Buddha statues, the relic stupas of the kings, and the Dalai Lama reincarnations as well as sacred sculptures, scriptures, and stupas. 

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View of the Potala Palace Façade from Street Level, circa 2011

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  • Potala (Sanskrit, Latin script, Original)
    • > པོ་ཏ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Transcription-Sanskrit-to-Tibetan Transcription)
      • > Potala Palace (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > po ta la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • > པོ་ཏཱ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Variant Spelling)
        • > Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
        • > po tA la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
      • > རྩེ་ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
        • > Tsé Podrang Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
        • > rtse pho brang po ta la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
        • > རྩེ་ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏཱ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Variant Spelling)
          • > Tsé Podrang Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
          • > rtse pho brang po tA la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
          • > rtse pho brang po t'a la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-Tibet Heritage Fund System of Tibetan Transcription)
        • > རྩེ་ཕོ་བྲང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Contraction)
          • > Tsé Podrang (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
          • > rtse pho brang (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
        • > ཕོ་བྲང་པོ་ཏ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Contraction)
          • > Potala Palace (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
          • > Podrang Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
          • > pho brang po ta la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
          • > 布达拉宮 (Tibetan, Simplified Chinese Characters, Transcription-Tibetan-to-Chinese Transcription)
            • > Budala gong (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-Pinyin Transcription)
      • > རྩེ་པོ་ཏ་ལ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Alt Spelling-Expansion)
        • > Tsé Potala (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
        • > rtse po ta la (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > རི་བོ་གྲུ་འཛིན། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Translation)
      • > Riwo Drundzin (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
      • > ri bo gru 'dzin (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
  • ཕོ་བྲང་དམར་པོ། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Red Palace (Tibetan, Latin script, Translation)
    • > Podrang Marpo (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
    • > pho brang dmar po (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)

Place ID: F16408

GB Code - Ryavec: 540101101

Tibet Heritage Fund Lhasa Building ID: AA

Lhasa Atlas ID: 316

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