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The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994. The palace is named after Mount Potalaka, the mythical abode of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara. [1]
The palace survived until the Tang dynasty, when it was burnt down by marauding invaders en route to the Tang capital, Chang'an. It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [26] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City.
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In 1690, construction of the Red Palace started and was completed in 1693. There was a grand inauguration ceremony for the Red Palace, and in front of the palace they set up an unmarked monument, called the "Inner Monument" ( Wylie : rdo-rings-nang-ma , ZYPY : རྡོ་རིངས་ནང་མ་ ), in contrast with the Lhasa Zhol Pillar ...
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The palace was for secular uses and contained the living quarters, offices, the seminary and the printing house. A central, yellow-painted courtyard known as a Deyangshar separates the living quarters of the Lama and his monks with the Red Palace, the other side of the sacred Potala, which is completely devoted to religious study and prayer.
The Potala in 2008 with the towers and walls of Zhol beneath but without the outer Zhol, razed in 1995. Zhol Village, or Shol Village (Chinese: 雪城; often transcribed as Zhöl or Shöl Village), is a village at the base of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.