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Banak Shöl Hotel (Chinese: 八朗学旅馆; pinyin: Bālǎng Xué Lǚguǎn) is a historic hotel in the city of Lhasa, Tibet, China. It is located at 8 Beijing Road. The hotel is known for its distinctive wooden verandas. The Nam-Tso Restaurant is located inside the hotel and is popular with tourists visiting Lhasa.
Lhasa, [a] officially the Chengguan District of Lhasa City, [b] is the inner urban district of Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region, Southwestern China. [ 4 ] Lhasa is the second most populous urban area on the Tibetan Plateau after Xining and, at an altitude of 3,656 metres (11,990 ft), Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world .
In Tibetan, "men" means "medical", "tsi" refers to "calendar", thus "mentsikhang" means "medical calendar hospital".In Tibetan medicine theory, human body condition is influenced by astronomical changes, and the growth and efficacy of Tibetan medicinal plants is influenced by seasonal changes, so traditional Tibetan medicine is heavily connected to the Tibetan calendar.
Holiday Inn opened the Holiday Inn Lido Beijing, the first international hotel in China in 1984, [2] followed by the Holiday Inn Lhasa in Tibet in 1986. The latter opened in 1985 under local management as the newly built 'Lhasa Hotel'; when the management contract with Holiday Inn expired in 1997, the hotel returned to local management. [3]
Tibet House US (THUS) is a Tibetan cultural preservation and education 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1987 in New York City by a group of Westerners after the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, expressed his wish to establish a cultural institution to build awareness of Tibetan culture. [1] [2] [3]
As a New York native, Governor’s Island holds a special place in my heart. It’s become a family tradition to visit the island at least once a year and recently, more and more exciting ...
The production of beer in Tibet is a relatively recent phenomenon in Tibetan cuisine. The Chinese established the Lhasa Brewery Company in 1988, which is located in Lhasa . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Ani Tsankhung occupies a yellow building in the Barkhor area of downtown Lhasa. [2] It is southeast of the Jokhang temple, and is the only nunnery in the old city of Lhasa. [3] The building is three stories high. [4] In the main hall there is an image of Chenresig, the multi-armed Bodhisattva of Compassion.