Potala Palace is the name of a museum in Tibet Autonomous Region of China, previously a palace of the Tibetan sovereign the Dalai Lama, in the dzong-style, in Lhasa capital of [[Tibet Autonomous Region#cite note-8 Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649. In 1959 the Tibetan government ceased inhabitation when the buildings ownershi…Potala Palace is the name of a museum in Tibet Autonomous Region of China, previously a palace of the Tibetan sovereign the Dalai Lama, in the dzong-style, in Lhasa capital of [[Tibet Autonomous Region#cite note-8 Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649. In 1959 the Tibetan government ceased inhabitation when the buildings ownership transferred to the People's Republic of China.