Tibet, China - Beautiful Potala Palace [2/3]

The Potala is located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in People's Republic of China. The Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India after a failed uprising in 1959. Today the Potala Palace has been forcibly converted into a museum by the Chinese. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig or Avalokitesvara.
Thirteen stories of buildings containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues, soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of Marpo Ri, the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about 1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor
The building measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging 3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at the base, and with copper poured into the foundations to help proof it against earthquakes. More details are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potala_Palace [Wikipedia]

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[akiralps]

@iamlumin a little weird, that's to say all white people in US should go back to europe?

[pepeal53]

El Potala es en la actualidad un museo muerto.

Es hoy un momumento a la hipocresía china.

Menos mal que al menos no lo dinamitaron como tantos y tantos lugares.

Pero simplemente, salvo para el escaparate del turismo, es un gran y bello contenedor vacío.

[iamlumin]

More Chinese revisionist history and propaganda. Chinese Princess was only one of five wives. This is TIBET not CHINA. As treaty in 821 says:

. . . TIBETANS shall be happy in TIBET and CHINESE shall be happy in CHINA shall NEVER be changed.

[Millieardo]

so is the palace no longer used for anything other than chinese communist propaganda?

[dondhon]

How come they keep showing the Chinese Princess' story and not the Tibetan Princesses and the Nepali Princess. This is straight up Communist propaganda.