It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa ...

In the winter of 1940, Lhamo Thondup was taken to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of today's Tibet Autonomous Region, and officially installed as the spiritual leader of Tibetans.

In the winter of 1940, Lhamo Thondup was taken to the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the capital of today's Tibet Autonomous Region, and officially installed as the spiritual leader of Tibetans. HOW WILL HIS ...

While he was born to a farming family, the Dalai Lama grew up in Lhasa's Potala Palace, a vast building reputed to have 1,000 rooms. Since then he has spent much of his life in a hilltop monastic ...

The Potala Palace is not only a sacred place in the hearts of Tibetan people but also a world-renowned tourist destination. From its mysterious past to today’s openness and inclusiveness, the palace ...

For a long time, the 14th Dalai Lama has been spreading fallacies and misleading public opinion on the issue of selecting the reincarnations of late Living Buddhas. Recently, he has gone further ...

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Historic Potala Palace in the Tibet autonomous region. WANG YE/FOR CHINA DAILY Yang Na has many "patients". But she has been watching over a special one, roughly 3,600 km away from her, for over 15 ...

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Throughout its history, the Potala Palace has suffered several fires, with the last occurring in June 1984 due to an electrical fault. The day after the fire, a firefighting team was established to ...