• Potala Palace caps visiting period
  • Introduce Potala Palace in digital high definition
  • Artists tour Lhasa
  • Potala Palace Snow City opens to public
  • Revamped area down Potala Palace to open to tourists
  • Potala Palace Snow City opens
  • The reconstruction of Tibet's three major cultural relics of the Potala Palace, Norbulingka and Sakya Kloster are reportedly going smoothly and the Snow City (Xuecheng) of the Potala Palace will be formally opened to the public during this year's May Day holiday.
    Site: At the foot of Potala Palace
    Price: RMB 30 (The wicket is located at the south door of Potala Palace .)
    Tel: 0086-891- 6823154
    Lungshar
    This building was known as the residence of the lay official Lungshar Dorj Tse Gyal, it covers and area of 490 suqare meters. Recently, this building is reproduced as a place to display the life of the carriage trade in old Tibet.
    Zhol Jail
    The housing was a jail to jug the prisoners with an area of 1,050 square meters. It is consisted of two parts, a jail in the east and a storage in the west. The southeastern jail had 5 prison houses to jug common prisoners.
     
     
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    Resident of Khensur

    Resident of Khensur is the former resident of old Tibet local government monk official Ngawang Denzin. it's now been recovered to reflect the luxurious life of old Tibet monk official.
    Stable and Cow Yard
    This building was established the 17th century, and covered an area of 2,800 square meters. It consists of four small yards, the entire building was said to resemble a Buddhist swastika symbol.
    Five-courtyard House
    This building covers an area of 1,020 square meters, and those separated courtyards were the residence of the nobleman, official, serf, groom and the man who was in charge of the royal band.

    Sholpa Department

    The entire build of this place covers and area of 5,280 squre meters. It used to be the administrative association where the old local government of Tibet to manage "Zhol" and Lhasa's eighteen "Tsong Shi".

    Treasury Bureau & Mint

    In the late 18th century, Qing Government ordered to set up the Treasury Bureau in Tibet. Recently, there reproduced a mint mill as the original one and also set up an exhibition of Tibetan local currency.

    Tavern

    This Tavern is consisted of boiling room, fermentation room and wine cellar and tells people how to make Tibetan barley beer.
     
    East Sutra-Printing House

    , Engraved Printing on Site
    , Stone Carving
    , Exhibit of Tibetan Study Instruments
    Resident of Dompo: Tibetan Architecture

    , Historic Building

    , Modern Building

    , Housing Project
    Resident of Pelshi : General Situation of Tibet

    , Summary

    , Part of photo show

     
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