It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa.

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The Potala Palace is the biggest extant lamasery in China. Inside the Potala the hails housing chortens are holy places and therefore their roofs are gilded. Kept there are chortens of the fifth ...

Click to expand Image A Tibetan Buddhist monk and a woman share a mobile phone outside the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on June 1, 2021. © 2021 Kevin Frayer/ (New York) – ...

Visitor numbers to the Tibet region reached 63 million last year, its highest ever. Travel agencies in Hong Kong, meanwhile, said more people from ...

The newly revised regulations on the establishment of model areas to facilitate the overall development of the Xizang ...

Exploring harmony in Xizang’s growth, culture & nature – by Harold Weldon, Global Times.Beijing, China, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In September 2023, I was honored to travel to China's Xizang ...

When Potala Palace was inscribed on the World Heritage List in December 1994, the Committee requested the Chinese authorities to consider the future extension of the World Heritage protected area to ...

After five years of work, Chen Zhen of CCTV has made the first feature length documentary about the Potala Palace, a film that reveals the long history and the splendid culture of the Tibetan ...