Location: In the heart of the Old City of Lhasa
Transport: By minibus to a hospital Tibetan. Three wheelers are not a bad choice.
Open Time: Daily. New monks in 14:00 to play in the second floor balcony to the religious
Admission: 70 yuan per person.
Review: “No one is to visit Tibet without the Jokhang Monastery. The famous Nimaciren Lama said the Johkang Monastery, and all the guests on the basis of their observations. Recommendation index: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Brief Introduction to the temple 
In the heart of the old city of Lhasa, the monastery is a place Johkang the Gélug (yellow) of Tibetan Buddhism. Firstly, it was in 647AD. In 643AD, the age of eighteen, Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty came to Lhasa. She lives with the size of the statue of Sakyamuni, at the age of 12 years. It was believed that the statue was modeled after the appearance of Sakyamuni, and was amended by Sakyamuni. There were three life-size statues of Sakyamuni in the world. The first is of eight years, another for a period of twelve years and the last eighteen years. The origin of the human size statue of Sakyamuni aged 16 was in India, however, flowed to the Indian Ocean, in the religious war. That’s life-size statue of Sakyamuni aged 12 years was the most valuable. Songtsen Gampe built Princess Wencheng Ramoche monastery for the statue, and also has the Johkang Monastey for Nepal Khidzun Princess. When the princess Jicheng statue of Sakyamuni in the Jokhang Monastery in Ramoche Monastery, the center of the cult. After years of expansion, the Jokhang Monastery is now.
Entering the main entrance of the Monastery, go right into a large courtyard, where “Molangqinmo” – the great prayer festival is celebrated in Lhasa. During the ceremony, thousands of monks of the three major monasteries in Lhasa are gathered here to pray for happiness and a stable society for all pilgrims. At the same time, many activities such as writing of the debate, etc. Exorcise the ghosts Majtreya hello Buddhas are kept. Molangqinmo began in 1409, when he convened Tsongkhapa monks all sects and all the monasteries of Great Prayer Festival during the first month of Tibetan calendar, to commemorate the achievements of the Sakyamuni. The frescoes on the wall of the Ganges are the settlement with thousands of Buddha statue, by so-called Thousand-Buddha Hall. The Jokhang Monastery frescoes, representing more than 4400 square meters.
Turn right and cross the Dragon King Yaksha Hall and Hall, and reached JueKang Hall (Hall of the Buddha) in the hundreds of butter lamps are flashing in front of the Buddha statues. Juekang The room is not only the largest part, but also the nature of the monastery. Is high, 4 floors Sutra of the Great Hall in the middle. Pilgrims Tibetan Buddhists in Lhasa is the center of the world believes and is here at the center of the universe. Well, the “Juekang room is the place where the monks pray and sing sutras. View from the middle of the great hall sutras, the great statue of the Goddess of Mercy with the thousand arms and eyes is flanked on both sides, the statue of the Buddha, with the statue on the left side and Lianhuasheng Qamber statue on the right side.
To the Great Hall of the sutras, all the rooms of the Buddha. Sakyamuni, with the exception of the room, the rooms of the Buddha rooms are not very large but very well maintained and clean. The fair is at the heart of Sakyamuni in the Jokhang Monastery, where the hope for spiritual pilgrims. There is a statue of Sakyamuni, the princess Wencheng leads into Lhasa.
The pilgrims have a ritual circumambulation walks in and around the Jokhang Monastery three. First, an inner ring on foot to the area of Sakyamuni in the Jokhang Monastery, secondly, go in the middle of the ring is Barkhor, ie walk along a busy street and a former Business – Barkhor Street. Thirdly, the outer ring is “Lingkor” around the Jokhang Monastery, the Yaowangshan of a mountain, the Potala Palace and the monastery Ramoche.
The Jokhang Monastery is the spiritual Tibet. After the 5th Dalai Lama has a scheme for “Gandanpozhang” organization “Gaxag lived here, in most cases around the building with two floors above the courtyard. Many politicians, from religion, for example,” Treaty of Jinping System “is available. The Jokhang Monastery is the clearest testimony to the history of relations between the Han and the Tibetans for thousands of years.
Recommendations:
Lamas of Jokhang Monastery singing of sutras night it is worthwhile to hear.
Guides are not sufficiently involved in the monastery, and only for the tourist groups.
Life-size statue of Sakyamuni aged 12 years is the statue of fear in the eyes of the Tibetan people.
