The Potala Palace, Lhasa
The Potala Palace, which is now on the national protection of Chinese cultural traces key, is the largest business in Tibet. It is a great treasure for materials and articles of Tibetan history, religion, culture and art. The Palace is valuable for the sculptures, wall paintings, writings, images of Buddha, the wall paintings, antiques, jewelry and even religious treasures, which has a high value of art and culture. In 1994, the Potala Palace, the Organization of the United Nations, the World Heritage Site.
Mainly in the White Palace (administerial building) and the Red Palace (religious building), Potala Palace is famous for its buildings, superstructures and the fantastic atmosphere of the dedication of art. The White Palace, the rooms, the courses and the temple, as the residence of the Dalai Lama. Eastern entrance of the palace, painted with images of Four Heavenly Kings, a broad corridor leads to the top Deyang Shar courtyard, which was to see where the Dalai Lamas operas. And to the great courtyard, was a seminar and bedrooms. West of the courtyard is the White Palace. There are three steps in the staircase to reach, but the plant was also used in the Dalai Lama and the government has the judge Tibet. In first gear, there is a large wall in the construction of the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple and the procession of the Princess Wencheng reach Tibet. On the south wall, the visitors signed a decree, with the Grand Hand Print fifth. The White Palace is mainly on policy and Dalai Lama’s head. La Maison de Sol and in the east of the house Sunday on the roof of the Palacio Blanco. Belonged to the thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama has. According to the Sun East Chamber is the largest room in the White Palace, the Dalai Lama is on the throne and ruled Tibet.
The Red Palace, with seven gold on the roof at a high level, is famous for its religious status, beautiful stupas and precious culture relics. The positions are red-grave Palace stupa halls Dalai Lamas and type of room for the worship of the Buddha. It was after the death of the fifth Dalai Lama. The center of the Red Cross is the Grand Palace Hall of the West, with the Great Fifth Dalai Lama for the life of his beautiful murals. In the east, the chapel of two meters (6.5 feet) high statue of Tsong Khapa, founder of the line Gélug is the Dalai Lama, and they prayed. South Chapel is the place where a statue of Padmasambhava silver and 8 bronze statues, their reincarnations. On the floor above, there is a gallery with a collection, 698 paintings representative of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dalai Lama and large trailers and Jatak Tibetan stories and historical events. West is the Great Hall of the West in the thirteenth Dalai Lama Stupa of space. The chapel in the north contains statues Sakyamuni, Dalai Lama and the Medicine Buddha stupas and the eighth, ninth and eleventh Dalai Lama.
Stoupa grave chapel
The Potala Palace, the eight chapels stupa-grave (where the relics of the fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth Dalai Lama, are kept. Estupa-The grave of the first Dalai Lama, known as the name is in the money Stupa Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, and the money comes from the Dalai Lama Stupa-II, III, IV are carefully Dreprung Monastery in Lhasa. stupa-grave of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, now in another building is also a part the Potala Palace. Of the seven stupa-tombs in the Potala Palace, the grave of the Dalai Lama V stupa, built in 1691, known as the first and most important. documents from sandalwood, wrapped in gold foil and decorated with thousands of diamonds, pearls, agate and other precious stones. The stupa, with a height of 14.86 meters (49 feet), more than 3700 kg of gold.
Carefully designed, animated by reason of the stupa-tombs beautiful and attractive look. The amber, pearls, coral, agate, diamonds and other precious stones, the land of more value for the entire stupa-tombs. In addition to the models, beautiful stupas live in the property, which is always valuable. A variety of cultural traces of the stupa and Customs Sakyamuni a picture of him, a work posthumously a decree of the King Songtsan Gambo, a portrait of Princess Wencheng embroidery, the things of the old monks higher, and so on. According to the Tibetan tradition, the mummy and perfumed by the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lamas are well preserved in stupas, known under the name of Stoupa funeral.
Around the stupa grave chapel of the Fifth Dalai Lama, there are chapels in which thousands of valuable books and many scriptures in Chinese, Mongolian and Manchu carefully. Furthermore, many samples of the letter and printed books about the history, medicine, culture, Buddhism, etc. They are also well maintained. It was reported that the number of books with more than 200,000.
The thirteenth Dalai Lama Stupa Chapel of the space in which the stupa of the thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933) is located. The people have started their Stupa, after his death in the autumn of 1933, the last building of the Potala Palace. Over three years, the stupa is comparable to the Big Five of the Stupa. It is 14 meters (46 feet), are only 0.86 meters less than the fifth Dalai Lama. Consisting of a large quantity of silver with approximately 600 kg of gold and with many coral, amber, agate, diamonds and other precious jewels, the Stupa is ten times more valuable than that of the Fifth Dalai Lama. Compared to the stupa, a mandala of 200,000 to more than 40,000 pearls and precious stones. The murals in the entrance hall of the main events in his life, including his visit to the Emperor Guangxu. This valuable comprehensive Kanjur volumes were also in the chapel.