This mansion is in the south part of the old section of Lhasa. Larsen and Sinding-Larsen (The Lhasa Atlas, 126) date this building to the time of the Fifth Dalai Lama (1617-1682). From the mid-eighteenth century, the mansion was the Nepalese Embassy in Lhasa, known alternately as the "Gorkha residence" (gor kha sdod shag) or the "old Gorkha" (gor kha rnying ba), Gorkha being the kingdom which ruled much of Nepal from the eighteenth century. The compound had an unusual structure consisting of a three-story main building surrounded by but detatched from two-story outbuildings that enclosed the compound on all four sides. Today most of the outbuildings have been demolished, but the main building has been converted into a hotel.