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Yülsham Sengma Khangchung

This building, located off Shasarzur (sha gsar zur) alley to the northwest of the Jokhang (jo khang) temple in Lhasa, was once the residence of the Dalai Lama's umbrella carrier. It was built in the first half of the twentieth century.

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  • Building materials > Stone
  • Building materials > Mudbrick
  • Building dimensions > Courtyard structure
  • Tibetan Event > Construction (1701 (estimated) - 1900 (estimated))
  • Tibetan Event > Construction (1876)
  • Tibetan Event > Construction (1901 (estimated) - 1950 (estimated))
  • Building dimensions > Stories: 2
  • གཡུལ་གཤམ་སེང་མ་ཁང་ཆུང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > g.yul gsham seng ma khang chung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Yülsham Sengma Khangchung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
  • གསིང་མ་ཁང་ཆུང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > gsing ma khang chung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Singma Khangchung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
  • Sumo Khangchang (Tibetan, Latin script, Original)
  • གཡུ་ཤོང་སིང་མ་ཁང་ཆུང་། (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > g.yu shong sing ma khang chung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > Yushong Singma Khangchung (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)

Place ID: F26611

Aufschnaiter Lhasa Map ID: kha 39

Tibet Heritage Fund Lhasa Building ID: 115

Lhasa Atlas ID: 211

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