It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage ... from November to April. 6 Days Lhasa Gyantse Shigatse Group Tour (12 reviews) 8 Day Tibet Classic Tour ...

Publications concerning the architectural styles, paintings, sculptures and the contents of all the cultural properties of the Potala Palace were prepared and distributed ... The active participation ...

The Potala Palace is the biggest extant lamasery in China. Inside the Potala the hails housing chortens are holy places and therefore their roofs are gilded. Kept there are chortens of the fifth ...

A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace ... a highborn Lhasa woman was simultaneously married to a local nobleman, to the Foreign Minister of Tibet, and to ...

The Potala Palace, winter palace of ... in the traditional administration of Tibet. The complex, comprising the White and Red Palaces with their ancillary buildings, is built on Red Mountain in the ...

As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Potala Palace in the heart of Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous region, is one of the most iconic landmarks of the region, standing as a magnificent ...

According to the palace's renovation department, the first large-scale repairs of the Potala Palace were made from 1989 to 1994, and they primarily addressed the structural risks of the palace.

After five years of work, Chen Zhen of CCTV has made the first feature length documentary about the Potala Palace, a film that ... to get to know more about Tibet and to reflect upon the important ...