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

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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[superCatia]

OM mani padme hum chanted in Gregorian style!

[dondhon]

They were not a lot of women in Tibet who were considered "holy" compare to men, but still there were some. So, I am just giving the recognition that they existed and still exist.

[sharmaleew]

Holy women? lol. No women are holy dude.

[dondhon]

Songtsen Gampo didn't build these two temples for Chinese Princess. He builds them for the statues of Buddhas, which were brought by the Nepali Princess and the Chinese Princess, as their dowries. It was one of the reason why he married them. These two status were very special because they were erected the Buddha was alive in India. No temple in Tibet was build for any lay women or lay me. They were temples for holy men or holy women.