Palais du Potala

Le palais du Potala, aussi appelé Potala (en tibétain : པོ་ཏ་ལ, Wylie : Po ta la, en chinois : 布达拉宫 ; pinyin : bùdálā gōng), à Lhassa, dans la région autonome du Tibet (Chine) , est un dzong (« forteresse ») du XVIIe siècle, situé sur la colline de Marpori (« la colline rouge »), au centre de la vallée de Lhassa.

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Zhol Village

Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans. It was a favorite haunt of the 6th Dalai Lama. Two stone pillars are found around or in the village: the outer pillar, which is located outside the southern entrance and bears the oldest inscriptions in Tibetan, and the inner pillar, which stands beneath stairs leading to the Potala and has no inscription.

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Potala Palace

Potala Palace is a museum complex in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It was formerly the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas, built in the dzong style on Marpo Ri. From 1649 until 1959 it served as the Dalai Lamas' residence, after which it became chiefly a museum following the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China. The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, regarded in Buddhist tradition as the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. Construction of the present structure was begun in 1645 at the order of the 5th Dalai Lama, advised by Konchog Chophel, the Thirty-fifth Ganden Tripa of the Gelug school. It was built on the site of an earlier palace attributed to Songtsen Gampo. Built at an altitude of about 3,700 metres on Marpo Ri in the center of the Lhasa Valley, the palace measures 400 metres east–west and 350 metres north–south. Its sloping stone walls average 3 metres thick, 5 metres at the base, with copper poured into the foundations for earthquake protection. Rising 13 stories, the complex contains more than 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines, and some 200,000 statues, reaching a height of 119 metres above the mountain and over 300 metres above the valley floor.

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Potala Palace Square

Potala Palace Square is a large square in the center of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, located in the south side of the Potala Palace, formerly known as the Working People's Cultural Palace Square. In 1995, the Potala Palace Square was built on the basis of the original Tibetan Working People's Cultural Palace Square, and in August 1995, the Potala Palace Square was handed over to the management of the Tibetan Working People's Cultural Palace. The Potala Palace Square was rebuilt and expanded in 2005. The north side of the Dala Palace Square is Beijing Middle Road, and the north side of the road is the Potala Palace. Square on the north side of the flag of the People's Republic of China flag stand, the south side of the Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet and the People's Government of Tibet Autonomous Region compound. There are six Chinese lamps on each side of the square. The east and west sides of the square are large green areas, and there is an artificial lake on the east side.

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Lhasa

Lhasa, officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres, Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world. The city has been the religious and administrative capital of Tibet since the mid-17th century. It contains many culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces. According to the census, the total resident population of the city by the end of 2024 will be 876,400.

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Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet

The Monument to the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet stands in the southern part of the Potala square in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region just outside the protective zone and buffer zone of the World Heritage Site. It celebrates what the People's Republic of China calls the "Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" by the People's Liberation Army, or what the exiled Tibetan government calls the invasion and annexation of Tibet. The foundation stone was laid on July 18, 2001 by Hu Jintao, China's vice-president at the time. The monument was unveiled on May 22, 2002.

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Construit par le 5e dalaï-lama, Lobsang Gyatso (1617-1682), le Potala fut le lieu de résidence principal des dalaï-lamas successifs et hébergea le Gouvernement tibétain jusqu'à la fuite du 14e dalaï-lama en Inde durant le soulèvement tibétain de 1959, à la suite de l'annexion de force du pays par la Chine. Comprenant un « palais blanc » et un « palais rouge », ainsi que leurs bâtiments annexes, l'édifice incarnait l'union du pouvoir spirituel et du pouvoir temporel tibétains, et leur rôle respectif dans l'administration de la théocratie tibétaine. Le palais, qui bénéficie d'une protection au titre de la première liste des sites historiques et culturels majeurs protégés au niveau national du patrimoine national d'État chinois depuis 1961, sous le numéro de catalogue 1-107, est aussi inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1994. Devenu musée, il est ouvert aux visiteurs. Aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, cet édifice de treize étages comptait parmi les plus hauts du monde. Le nom dérive du mont Potalaka, qui est la demeure d'Avalokiteshvara, dont trois rois du dharma (chos rgyal, sanskrit : Dharmaraja (en)) et le Dalaï-Lama sont la réincarnation.