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>>Potala Palace
Located in the Maburi mountain of northwest corner in Lhasa of Tibet (red mountain), it is a castor type building huge in scale, combining palace, temple space and efficacious tower together. Potala Palace establish in loyal middle period of Tang Dynasty Zhenguan year, Tufan Zanpu Songzanganbu with Tang united by marriage, build this palace for the first time for marrying WenCheng princess, repeat build in later age. Spectacular Potala Palace in Qing Dynasty the two year of Shunzhi's rign (1645 year) Dalai unify Tibet volume honor as a queen, build and rebuild Qing Dynasty five generation today. Become the highest, largest castle type buildings above sea level of our times. "Budala" is the transliteration of Sanskrit, and translation "Putuoluo" or "Putuo", mean view generation sound island Bodhisattva occupy originally, therefore Potala Palace commonly called as the second Putuo Mountain. Start to stand on the waist of the red mountain in Potala Palace, build by the mountain, over 3700 meters above the sea level, and integrate in mountain lie. 360 meters long from east to west, the north and south is 140 meters wide, the main building is up to 117 meters, cover an area of 360,000 square meters, with a construction area of 130,000 square meters, 13 layers of appearances, the wall is all built by the granite. Made up of White House and red palace in Potala Palace. White House is past dynasties Dalailama's life and the places of government affairs of handling, the red palace is the venue for religious activities, besides the hall of the temple, also preserve the clever tower of body with past dynasties Dalailama. The visitor, through "Pingcuoduilang" to enter the "Deyang hall" square of halfway up the hill, here is the place where past dynasties Dalailama and officers of monks and laymen watched Buddha's warrior attendant's supernatural dance and Zang opera. Main building of White House have "Cuoqinxia", take bed palace of ceremony for past dynasties Dalailama, on hang Qing emperor of Tongzhi by horizontal inscribed board that "shake boundary slow at the tin" that grant. Top floor imperial is sleeping palace, printing opacity extremely fine, commonly called as sunlight hall. The main building of the red palace is built in order to preserve past dynasties Dalailama's clever tower, among them with five generation clever of the largest scale tower of Dalailama, tower stand tower bottle use 110,000 two gold parcels, inlay all kinds of more than 1500 drops of jewel, priceless, called "ZhuoLin adds firmly", mean "the first in the world is solemn". In the west have quiet satisfactory audience hall (Cuoqing Nusi the west arrange while being flat) five generation Dalailama clever tower room for the purpose of sacrifice offering of hall, inboard wall paint all over mural painting, Dalailama close Beijing present before Shuizhi mural painting of the Supreme Being most famous with five generation among them. Red palace most high palace for "win three circle hall very", support, have silver cast 11 first of Goddess of Mercy, it is the extremely precious historical relic. Fawang hole (song lucky bamboo general ) lie between red palace and White House, it is Tibetan regime period that offer as a gift and construct, do practise hole of Songzanganbu for Tibetan king, have Songzanganbu, WenCheng princess, Chizun princess and Ludongzan statue that wait for someone inside according to legend, it is the artistic treasure of period of Tibetan regime. There are seven glittering gold roofs on the top of Potala Palace, support with the sets of brackets on top of the columns, make Chinese hide the architectural style to combine together. Having also kept the extremely abundant history relic in Potala Palace, among them there is mural painting of 2500 square meters, nearly one thousand pagodas, as many as ten thousand statues, the card of as many as ten thousand periods of Tang, and the shellfish leaf is waited for the precious text ancient books and records, and the emperor granted gold volume, golden seal, jade printing and a large number of craft treasures of one in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

>>Jokhang Temple
The centre of old town of Lhasa, has already had a history of 1350 years from today. Legend Jokhang Temple temple location one lake initially, Songzanganbu promise to Chizun princess in lakeside this, build the hall of the temple with the place that the ring falls, who knows the ring happens to fall into the lake, lake surfaces spread all over all networks immediately, display White Tower of nine grades in the mere network. Then, one begins with a thousand white goat's vast and mighty projects of carrying the building construction temple on the back. Jokhang Temple has built for three years and had enough and to spare together, because Tibetan language call "goat" as "make", call "soil" as "Sa", for commemorate white contribution of goat, hall of the temple initial by name "make Sa", rename as "grandfather draw health" (through hall), also call "health of feeling" (the family hall for worshipping Buddh ), full name for "make main officer of Tibet Sa like grandfather, bag of Chi, draw health", mean, carry goat on the back soil and build it. "heavy and clear" name it is said and begin with in the 15th century to "can spread clear fundamental laws and principles", have something to do. Jokhang Temple is extant most brilliant building of period of Tibetan regime of Tibet, is the structural building of building initially of Tibet too, and open the temple overall arrangement rule type of the hiding type level land type. Rebuilted many times, opened up again by successive dynasties, then formed the grand scale nowadays covering an area of more than 25100 square meters. Along entering a wide open-air courtyard clockwise rotation after entering by the main entrance, here whether large-scale Lhasa can wish fundamental laws and principles "silent to admire while being bright" place once. Lhasa three major several tens of thousands of Buddhist monk of temple gather herein when the time comes, all for all living creature happy and social stability and pray, still hold the debate on scriptures, drive spirits, meet all to fill and rein in activities such as Buddha, etc. at the same time. "silent to admire while being bright" start on A.D. 1409, cases of click Palestine for commemorate Sakyamuni Buddha defeat six charitable and pious deeds of outer course with France that god change master, convene every temple, all Buddhist monks of religious sect, the law of holding blessings and wishing in Jokhang Temple during the first month of the lunar year of lunar calendar of the Zang nationality will be built. Courtyard colonnade corridor wall transfer to by cloister corridor mural painting of wall, because Man paint a thousand Buddha statue of Buddha known as a thousand Buddha corridor. The wall of the whole Jokhang Temple is decorated with more than 4400 square meters. Continue right wind, wear hall and crystal palace, yaksha of both sides, several hundred butter that light it offers to be famous "health of feeling" hall of the temple behind light. It is a subject of Jokhang Temple, and the quintessence of Jokhang Temple too. The family hall for worshipping Buddha is in the form of airtight courtyard, the building is four storeys high, central authorities, in order to pass the hall greatly. Zang spread Buddhist think Lhasa in the center of world, and core of universe lie in here. Here is Jokhang Temple Buddhist monk chant scriptures, build place of law at present. From heavy to can see by hall centre model exquisite a thousand hand a thousand observe generation transliteration statue far away, there are two ornamental and magnificent statues of Buddha on both sides, grow for the lotus flower on the left, right is a strong Palestinian Buddhism statue. It is all small-scale families hall for worshipping Buddha from the hall to be large, besides lying in Sakyamuni family hall for worshipping Buddha of the centre heart, the room quite but fix up succinctly. Sakyamuni family hall for worshipping Buddha is a core of Jokhang Temple, this is pilgrim's final yearning. Whom hall this enshrine and worship release Jia as if statue of Buddha which Wen Cheng princess lead.

>>Small clear temple
Small clear temple lie in Jokhang Temple 500th place, in go to the dense institute cultivation dense one, monk of Tibet, cover an area of 4000 square meters. Only the shrine of ground floor is the early building now, the faintly visible custom left by a preceding generation of Tibetan regime of 10 posts inside, engrave lotus flower above, carve have flowers and plants, cirrus, jewel and six word the truth. On three floors was the place where Dalailama stayed in the past. Small clear gold roof of temple to have a rest mountain style Chinese too, support with sets of brackets on top of the columns, whole architectural style is Chinese and zang, match well too. Temple small and clear build on 7 century middle period, for Tibetan regime temple famous early, and then the stupid to send by case dense from site at the institute dense on being the one of institute for dose. In middle period of the 7th century, while building Jokhang Temple, Wen Cheng princess selects site, design, mainly enter the craftsmans of the Han nationality of Tibetan regime from ChangAn in the Tang Dynasty according to the ground temple rule of Chinese, it last one year, made an appointment in the 20th year of Zhenguan for Tang (646), built up with Jokhang Temple at the same time. The temple door is towards the east, in order to show Wen Cheng princess' homesick heart.

>>It is wrong to receive the wood
Mean Tin lake, clever lake or supernatural lake, famous Holy Land of Tibetan Buddhist, believer of there is one of four Venus Williams violent lake, spread this win, make rites place of Buddha's warrior attendant happy for dense case, lie Lhasa city act as male county and the district Bange between the county. The lake surface has an elevation of 4718 meters, 70 kilometers long from east to west, the north and south is 30 kilometers wide, it is the highest and largest salt water lake in the world. Its is bright and clean and vast, free from shame before the laudatory title of Tin Wu. However, its color is too changeable to use far in the blue sky. Sometimes is dark blue, sometimes dark green, sometimes bluish-green and alternate, sometimes dark dust, it have pieces of Mongolian to "Tenggeli Sea" , hear from people again it was a landlocked sea in fact, limited by the phenomenon of the tide bulge and fall in the moon. As the living spirit lake, its symbolic animal of the birth year is a sheep. Every Year of the Sheep, supernatural lake open grand festival, hundreds and thousands of pilgrim tide inside and outside the Tibet. Transfer to the mountain and move round the lake, the religious service of burning joss sticks. Area is 1920 sq. km.. The southeast of it is penetrating into the clouds, the highest peak which reads blue and green Danggula Mountains of the snow perennially, rest on and snuggle up to the gentle and unbroken plateau hills in the north, the broad grassland moves round the lake, Tin lake inlays in Tibet grassland of the north like the enormous treasure mirror of one side. Profound and blue heaven, dark blue lake, white snow, green grass, the herdsman's ox hair tents and varicoloured mountain flowers, enhance each other's beauty and make up the beautiful, moving picture of a piece of nature, on the spot in person, feel completely relaxed and happy all without exception. Receive wood Buddhist nun, agate of lakeside, pile, spread all over by mistake, because over a long period of time, one agate Buddhist nun pile and link up gradually, become one and as long as upper hectometre, more than half people's high agate Buddhist nun's walls. The agate Buddhist nun piles 100,000 meanings of passing the stone of "break out more" by name. Believer every agate Buddhist nun pile, must miss one stone, use one stone mean to recite first text; Hang blue, white, red, green, yellow five cloth of on agate Buddhist nun pile, swung with the wind by the long narrow flag, it is to convey the text once to Heaven to swing once. The Buddhist nun piles and increases agate year after year, several degrees are upgraded in one year by long narrow flag. Print at long narrow flag, at board carve, transfer to on tube hiding, pilgrim study in in the mouth, all that often read the often new the truth of six famous words: Buddhist nun's miaow of drone agate that transliteration is "moo". The lake abounds with the thin scale's fish in the plateau and not has scale's fish to receive the wood by mistake. Receive the wrong lake scenery of wood is beautifully and grandly. Receive wood lake offer for supernatural lake by mistake, even India, Buddhist of Nepal make a long journey on foot and come to go on a pilgrimage too pious Buddhist.

>>Sweet red temple
It is on the mountain within the territory of lying in Lhasa and reaching the diligent county on the prosperous wave day 3800 meters above sea level of bank of Henan of Lhasa, 57 kilometers from Lhasa. Send one of building stupidly first, largest temples for Tibetan Buddhist dose, occupy dose and send the famous the first of six major temples stupidly. Translate main officer of Tibet red temple, main officer of Tibet red temple, willing to be temple, Tibetan for like foot one win the continent literal translation, clear one has granted the longevity temple forever by name generation. It dose stupid to send, cut into a mountain founder cases of click Palestine master establish, wish fundamental laws and principles build after the meeting in Lhasa on 1409 year, it build and establishment that can wish fundamental laws and principles indicate dose stupid to send of Tibetan Buddhist forming formally. After the temple is built up, the bar of a click occupies in this tin, write books to expound a theory, enlarge and spread dose and send the teaching method stupidly. In 1419, after the Palestinian nirvana dead, his disciple JiaCaoJie took over this temple of seats of presiding over "bar of the sweet red pool". Whole buildings pitch by hall of the temple, loudspeaker chapter palace, Buddhist temple storehouse and rice village and subsidiary building Entrance make up. Draw eight bullocks of the audience hall of the base and male genital for the main building of hall of the temple among them. Draw the audience hall of the base, have another name called and arrange and admire the audience hall, lie in northern half of the whole buildings, seat in the north towards the south, the whole temple most loud meeting hall, the hall of the temple is three layers high. Mainly enshrine and worship and fill and tie Buddha and Palestinian master's portrait of a click tight in the hall of the temple, there is sweet Palestinian law stand of red pool, the shadow is moulded to mould wrapping up rate day above the hall door of hall of the temple on the left, the model is very exquisite. Male genital eight bullocks lie in draw in the west of main hall of a Buddhist temple of base, four layer high, defend the doctrine shrine, go to hall, hall of teacher and city of jar separately, department east health and sweet red pool bar clever tower hall, etc. building unit make up successive dynasties. Red proper health hold high long health two loudspeaker chapter building of sweet red temple, red proper health cases of click imperial sleeping palace of Palestine among them, paint statues of Buddha such as Sakyamuni and Buddha that moulds and gentle different Bodhisattva, etc. highly skilledly in the palace, it has strong inland style of Central Plains that the doors and windows are carved The Tibetan language of hall of efficacious tower of bar of a click one is "department's east health". Hall this is sheep eight bullock pass institute top, will it be October 25 A.D. 1419 cases of click in red proper health nirvana bar, remains keep among silver tower, and then mulberry increase tax revenue change into the gold with affiliated one year such as area such as Qinghai dawn by Luosangtanzeng, all parcel on clever tower body of the tower, decorated with various famous and precious jewel, make it become one rich gold Tamerlan extremely. Hide abundant and precious history relic in the sweet red temple, do grand emperor vouchsafe temple this inlay all over gold and silver jewel, book have Chinese to be full to cover with, hide four suit of armour of characters Qing Dynasty for 1757 years among them, national expert historical relic, pure gold sweat write and a whole set of "Gan ZhuEr" Sutras of Tibetan "Tripitaka" that become, embroidered by a whole set of Ke silk card Tang for Tang of 24 when made up such as 16 arhats and four major kings, these historical relics all show the intimate relation between the central government and Tibet locality of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them 24 show for three weeks, form this temple of large-scale embroidering festival for Tang sweetly and redly once per year, because the importance that there are the sweet red temples in religion, art, politics and historical relic fullies recover from an illness, classified as the Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection in 1961.

>>The octagonal street of holy way
There is an octagonal street in Capital Lhasa of the Tibet Autonomous Region, the masses of Tibetan are praised as the holy way. In Buddhism, the holy way is for Heaven way. The octagonal street is not named with the form of the street, but is the transliteration of Tibetan language "eight is ancient", i.e. the meaning around the temple. Whenever the rosy dawn and the setting sun arise to drop on the sky of Lhasa, there is countless Tibetan Buddhist, rotate in this and say in "octagonal street" around ring taking Jokhang Temple as the centre. The masses of Lhasa Tibetan nearly want every day three circles Jokhang Temple surround along the octagonal street. This kind of Buddhist ceremony activity, "wind the street".
The octagonal street is 1.5 -km-long, about 9 metres wide, round in shape, there is not head that have no end, both sides outdated to hide room is at the intersections to have odd huge incense burners of Buddhism through the distance, the diurnal firework fills the air, is distributing the perfume of a kind of pine oil. The guest of strange land, if is not careful, can't often find the incoming road, distinguish the clear north, south, east and west. According to legend seven middle period and the the Tang Dynasty such as century Wen Cheng princess select in person, design it Nepal red of princess build Jokhang Temple. Because support statue of Buddha of Sakyamuni taken in Chang An since Tang of Wen Cheng princess in the temple, so become the religious Holy Land that the people of Tibetan worship most. At the end of the seventh century, extended out more and more temples and houses gradually gradually around Jokhang Temple, for the religionists to stop for a rest on a walking tour and get accommodation. This is a primitive embryonic form of the octagonal street. The octagonal street seems very narrow and crowded. Under the very high white wall of both sides of the street, put up full white tent, the pedlar peddles one's own goods each. Food, wear, play, gift, offerings, cosmetics is when fill with everything, multifarious. Especially color and luster gorgeous Jiangzi card cushion, work exquisite day click beauty cap; The tough one adds and checks the bicker, the sparkling and crystal-clear benevolence cloth bracelet is all with national characters, make people so fond that will not let out of one's hand.

>>Zhebung Monastery
Western suburb kilometer of roots bank up with earth dark diligent south col of mountain have buildings of green in Lhasa, look far into the distance, seem to pile up a pile of white rice in the col, is named Zhebung Monastery, Tibetan means and accumulates the rice temple, it is Tibetan Buddhist dose that sends the temple stupidly. Claim Lhasa three major temple jointly with sweet red temple, salad temple, full name lucky rice gather ten directions one win the continent. Before Zhebung Monastery is busy at putting up installations, here have only founder of Zhebung Monastery deep red to beg song form, build cave and little temple of France, other has two White Tower. The later extensive temple building was repaired and built up with this centre. Palestine's disciple of a click begged deep redly but in charge of building outstandingly in 1416. He lets to Kanbu firstly after building up. By 7 initial disciples, form 7 thin pieces of wood used for writing on in ancient China storehouses of this temple (pass the institute ) separately. Developed into dose and sent the richest temple of the capability stupidly later. Hold monk of period temple 7700 people most, have 141 manor and more than 540 pieces of pasture. Because go through Dalailama all regards Zhebung Monastery as mother's temple generation, so this temple is stupid and at the top of the peck order while sending the temple in dose. The building of Zhebung Monastery utilizes a slice of all over the place hillside fields in the col ingeniously, build on chasing storey, the hall is linked, one group of buildings stands towering, large-scale, grand. Zhebung Monastery has a lot of building, a main one have sweet red chapter quite, arrange, admire audience hall, pitch storehouse, etc. while being four major. Each construction unit can be divided into on the whole flat high Cheng of flat such three pieces of ground with the hall of the temple flatly, passes the hall of the courtyard. Form the outline of rising from gate to the hall of the temple progressively like this, make the following part of hall of the temple seem towering and towering. And is mainly adopted gold roof, looks wheel, treasure one etc. in the audience hall again by the outside of the hall ornamentally, make the physique of the building more abundant .
Arrange, admire audience hall lie in the center of Zhebung Monastery cover an area of more than 4500 square meters, have 190 more than root post in hall, can hold 7,000 to 10,000 lama, the place that the Buddhist monk of the whole temple concentrated on chanting scriptures and holding a ceremony. Stone steps it lays to be spacious debate on scriptures field in front of corridor, every lama of storehouse want, stand one reply here, can participate in one dose of west qualifying examinations that will spread clear fundamental laws and principles after winning. Main Buddha that enshrine and worship to come out mother of canopy Buddha picture and immeasurable to defeat Buddha 9 year old height picture. Back hall centre support, have one two floor a high one gold-decorated to fill prosperous better Palestine Buddha; On the left side hall in a palace or temple is three generation hall of the temple, support to have pass by Buddha light a lamp, now Buddha Sakyamuni, future Buddha strong bar; Support various Sutras in the side hall in a palace or temple on the right. Hall of the temple exit of cloister have Qing Dynasty such as one party with manage emperor's hand writing horizontal inscribed board of Emperor submit a written statement to "input Cheng Xiang". "the dragon breaks out the health" of the audience hall in the west is the hall of efficacious tower, three silver towers among them are extremely noticeable, one in the middle is Dalailama's clever tower in two generations, two about towers are the tower of founder in Zhebung Monastery. Audience hall founder hall of the third floor have depositary of Buddhist texts and strong bar coherent real hall of the temple, enshrine and worship strong bar 8 year old bronze statue, triton that bronze statue have it is saids to be relic of Sakyamuni, a temple magic weapon in town. The four building-owners hall offers Sakyamuni's statement picture, there are 13 silver towers on both sides. Side hall arhat hall, support Buddhism past dynasties founder and arhat statue inside, support have wise clam big newspaper body picture of living Buddha main.

>>Salad temple
It is Shamanism one of the six famous temples of our country (the six famous temples of Shamanism: Sweet red temple of Lhasa, Zhebung Monastery, salad temple, pitching the cloth temple of assorted human relations of Japan's click, Gansu draw, divine stupefied temple and Taer Monastery of Qinghai), it is cases of click Palestine faithful disciple of master that clear up Jia benefit west establish in 1419 years, located at the dark diligent foot of a mountain of salad of north suburb of Lhasa. Temple main building have, arrange, admire audience hall, wheat pitch storehouse, lucky to pitch storehouse, A bar pitch storehouse and health village, etc.. The temple is grand in architecture, the edifice adjoins and unites, the heavy floor changes the pavilion. Paint the mural painting of all over color in riotous profusion in the palace of the temple; Statue of Buddha, Tang card, musical instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass, sacrificial ware all kinds of, by long narrow flag, can be found everywhere by block; In addition, are also collecting valuable historical relics such as classics, statue of Buddha, musical instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass which the central authorities granted, etc. of Ming Dynasty. This Tibet the relation in studying history, building, art and Chinese of Tibet, have important value. Salad temple arrange, admire audience hall located in temple Northeast, four layer high, square, heavy to make up by hall and five hall of the temple in front of hall. Arrange, admire, mean, gather hall is the whole main hall of temple, the centres of this temple of activities too. Salad temple arrange, admire audience hall build on clear bright 48 year (1709 year) such as health, draw, hide for descendant, sweat of Gushi, sweat preside over building. Mainly support strong bar (fill and tie tight ) Buddhism, six meters high, the sculpture is consummate, the expression is sedate. In the west arhat hall, support 16 arhat mainly, each arhat have, clear up Jia benefit the west from wood carving first of arhat that China Mainland bring in the body. In the east big shrine, Buddha's warrior attendant of Vad, the south wall is collected to Yongle edition Tripitaka, this is Confucian classics that the first woodcut of our country printed, will become treasure handed down from ancient times that the Ming Chengzu. Lucky to pitch storehouse to up to layer of grand buildings, defend the doctrine head of the horse that shrine enshrine and worship Buddha's warrior attendant most famous in Tibet too; Wheat pitch storehouse scale smaller than lucky to pitch storehouse, defend the doctrine supernatural soil dark with majestic to fear and piously worship while being fear while being violent slightly.
Hide a large number of valuable historical relics and national handicrafts in the salad temple, for instance card of all kinds of statue of Buddha, Tang (axle is drawn), Confucian classics, musical instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass, sacrificial ware, etc.. Among them in order to keep in arrange, admire first audience hall beg, draw "Tripitaka" of health most precious. This Tripitaka was printed in the eighth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1410), there are 108 letters in all, perfect now, carved seal with the stone bright red. In arrange, admire another hall of the temple soil their of audience hall draw, in the health, keep 200 over letter spend gold sweat hand ZhuEr Gan, red pearl Confucian classics of sand. In lucky to pitch, in the health hall of the temple, uncle of hillock, of storehouse, collect pieces of one copper cymbal, cymbal carved with pattern of "two dragons playing with a pearl", have " Xuande add gold and silver make in Ming Dynasty" fund words. In addition in lucky to pitch, draw in the health again dawn in storehouse, wall cover with various suit of armour, bow and arrow, shield, cap of style, etc. all around. These hide weapon of Shi Wang while being the ninth generation of Tibet according to legend, can "town evil spirit exorcises evil spirits". Besides the above historical relic, it is said that waits collecting to the arhat that 18 of sandalwood which the emperor granted were carved in the Ming Dynasty yet in the temple.
The osiery is everywhere around the salad temple, the flowing water is gurgling, it is eminent monk living Buddha that expound doctrines and experiences cloth place that win very of law, have a lot of Buddhist monks and nums little temple surround during that time from ancient times, temple of Pubujue in the south and at the the east temple, Buddhist nun of Miqiongre, the goddess temple of Zhaqi, Kaduorique (quiet to build place), Balongrique; In the west have Barr storehouse temple, temple of Gongbasa, go straight hillock temple, pitch west song forest emple, song mulberry temple, bad-tempered beautiful Buddhist nun's temple; there is pearl health day behind the temple , but salad carries the temple etc.

>>Clear cloth temple
Within the territory of lying and piling dragon's Deqing county, about 70 km from Lhasa. The clear cloth temple is that the main officer of Tibet of agate of main officer of Tibet lifts the main temple sent. Reincarnation of living Buddha custom that temple begin from clear cloth, later other religious sects of Tibet in the same way. 4300 meters above the sea level, on lying in the clear cloth river that Lhasa piles in the northwest of dragon's Deqing county, 70 kilometers from the western suburb of Lhasa. Clear cloth temple in large scale buildings go on, distribute so as to hall for in the center, altogether including by hall, family hall for worshipping Buddha, defend the doctrine hall, Buddha institute, dense cases of cultivation institute, living Buddha's private residence and monk give up etc., repair having for to expound doctrines and experiences platform building scale under construction. There are more than 300 monks at present in this temple. There are a large number of rare historical relics in the clear cloth temple, the ones that are worth mentioning are as follows, river temple Pu build temple tablet, lie in clear cloth temple in the audience hall, high about two and a half meters now, wide about half, carve ancient Tibetan on it, to study Tibetan regime period politics, economy, religion, etc. have important historical data value tablet this; Empty to live in Buddha is clear cloth temple town treasure of temple, eight generation main officer of Tibet agate silver picture that Palestine moulded for commemorating the teacher on it. It is said silver picture suspend nearly seven long day in the sky automatically unexpectedly mould, have time, live in Buddha saying; Clear Beulah Big Buddhism's meaning in thousand "draw thousand", about 6 meters high, it is said that is cast by bar of main officer of Tibet agate of two generations. In addition, agate main officer of Tibet draw stone engraving statue, Milla day earthen bowl, loose to admire monk of bar clear cloth temple precious treasure in cap, etc. that bar use just. Encircle clear cloth temple lucky to admire wave have a series of famous beauty spots too at the God Mountain, celestial burial platform, quiet to build room and past dynasties main officer of Tibet agate bar close the border hole, 17 generation main officer of Tibet agate bar heart incantation words ,etc. that leave at stone transfer mountain to.

>>Handkerchief Nation card
It is one of the most famous famous historical sites of Lhasa. It Tibet book at the literature and history record, it the initial by Songzanganbu, Tunmisangbuzha here aren't rice cloth at the mulberry, and here have three of main fact since apparent to look like, Songzanganbu hole, etc. that cloth wait for someone, therefore here obtained the sacred and magical position. Latter stage such as Tibetan regime, Damozanpu burn the handkerchief Nation card put out Buddha. The end rejuvenation of the 11th century. Since Qing Dynasty, Dalailama's calendar people transferred to Shi Du and got this gift Buddha, initiated into monkhood, come here to hold the ceremony of congratulating too after obtaining one dose of west degrees; Handkerchief Nation card bear cloth the example is appointed by the tall building of the main officer of Tibet.

>>The red palace of Lhasa
It is the place for enshrining and worshipping Buddha's spirit and holding religious rites, the subject building is Dalailama's clever tower and all kinds of families hall for worshipping Buddha. There are 8 efficacious towers in all in the palace, Dalailama's clever tower is the most luxurious Dalailama and 13 generations with five generations. Red palace keep have a large number of precious historical relic and craft treasure also, such as emperor seal grant instruct the imperial decree, seal imperial mandate, specimen seal impression, gift Ming and Qing Dynasties, carve the thin rare curios that engraved, rare culture ancient books and records, and the card, the musical instruments used in a Buddhist or Taoist mass, sacrificial ware, etc. of all kinds of statue of Buddha, Tang precisly. Red palace fifth wall "build pursue" a series of paintings of gallery, display Potala Palace scene build, vivid.

>>White House
In front of the door is a short and steep wooden ladder, divide into three, ordinary person only walked on both sides, one of the middle Dalailama stay, hide minister walk only in the past. Mount the wooden ladder, it is the entrance hall in front of the gate of White House. All over painting the mural painting on the wall of the entrance hall, have build scene of Jokhang Temple 7 century, scene of Potala Palace and TaiZong Tang five difficult wedding make, Wen Cheng princess enter luxuriant story of undergoing etc. at the 7 century. Still building the imperial mandate order that the bright red mould of Dalailama's palm print for five generations on the wall in the south, careless to let department mulberry form good to arrange, act on one's behalf right their, Tibet monks and laymen take language of obeying etc. all. Crossing the entrance hall can enter White House .

>>The mosque of Lhasa
Also called the river dam forest mosque. In Hui compact community of dam forest of southeast river in old city of Lhasa. Established it in the 18th century. The temple location is east-west, there are courtyards of three passages before and after the central axis. The buildings are made up of outside one gram of buildings of hall of decorated archway, week, Nation, bathroom, water room, forest card, etc.. Week towards the east, one's job hall, open Room, railway platform, etc. hall. A horizontal inscribed board of "ancient mosque" is hung in the drawing room to open. The forest card lies in the west of the religious service hall, plant flowers and trees such as Chinese scholartree, pine and cypress, apple, walnut, etc. in the garden, the environment is tranquil and quiet and beautiful. The building adopt Tibetan's traditional forms more, the round vault, cutting sharp, the enclosure is built and built with the square rock that is chiselled, adopt the conventional flowers and plants line pattern of Islam to be made ornamentally, make fundamental key bluely in the hall, simple and succinct, there is obvious characteristic that strong religion and local architecture art combine together.

>>Tibet king Ling
Lie the Tibet Autonomous Region Joan form county town opposite Mure mountain, the 7th century --Past dynasties Tibetan Zanpu general graves in the 9th century, it have an area of reaches to 3 kilometers. Tomb imperial tomb structure square to carry while being flat, marry so as to the soil stone rammer. Rammer soil layer distinct and solid, each thickness 15 centimetres --20 centimetres. The imperial tomb of the tomb comes in different sizes, it is unordered to arrange, is degraded by the long-term trials and hardship, exactly like the mound. Songzanganbu and Wen Cheng princess and in front and back of several generation Zanpu were bury herein. Most tomb owners can't already do in the test besides specific tomb. by the tomb of Chidesongzan, set up column shape one of stone tablet with the proper method, 10 meters high, with stone pearl top cover on, tablet body front carve, extol Chidesongzan Zanpu life ancient Tibetan characters of charitable and pious deeds can still be recognized. Erect the stone lion couple before the tomb, 1.55 meters high, vivid, the skill in using a kitchen knife in cookery is smooth. Stone lion mane become, arrange, hang down on back, with common stone lion being mane curly to cover head with to be different. According to historical records, there should be 13 mausoleums in the graves, only can see 3 now. The tombs has not been explored yet, has already been classified as the Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection now.