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The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994. The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. [1]
21 lut 2018 · The 5th Dalai Lama started construction of the Potala Palace in 1645, after one of his spiritual advisers, saw the site as an ideal location, for a new seat of government. The new construction would be situated between the Drepung and Sera monasteries and the old city of Lhasa.
14 mar 2024 · Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, has called David-Néel "an enthusiastic Buddhist, the first to introduce the real Tibet to the West".
Het Potala paleis is het winterpaleis van de Dalai Lama sinds de 7e eeuw en staat symbool voor het Tibetaanse boeddhisme. Het complex bestaat uit de Witte en Rode paleizen met hun bijgebouwen, gebouwd op de Rode berg in de Lhasa vallei op een hoogte van 3.700 meter.
Situated on a slope of Moburi (Red Mountain) and considered the quintessence of Tibetan architecture, it is a massive white and brownish-red structure that casts an imposing shadow over the rest of the Lhasa. Until the Tibetan rebellion in the late 1950s it was the home of the Dalai Lama.
The Potala Palace is the landmark impossible to miss, located at the centre of Lhasa City. The original palace was build in the 7th century by King Songtsen Gampo on this outcrop, the “Red Hill”, which dominates the city of Lhasa.
The Potola Palace was the residence of the Dalai Lama from the 17th century until the current Dalai Lama fled to India during the 1959 Tibetan uprising. During the Cultural Revolution, Tibet's monasteries were destroyed with dynamite and artillery and rare books and paintings were burned.
