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The Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ Wylie: Po ta la; simplified Chinese: 布达拉宫 traditional Chinese: 布達拉宮) is located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig or Avalokitesvara. The Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959. Today the Potala Palace has been converted into a museum by the Chinese.

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  • The Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ Wylie: Po ta la; simplified Chinese: 布达拉宫 traditional Chinese: 布達拉宮) is located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig or Avalokitesvara. The Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959. Today the Potala Palace has been converted into a museum by the Chinese.
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  • China
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  • Location within Tibet
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  • Potala Palace
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  • The Potala Palace from the south-east
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  • 布达拉宫
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  • China Tibet
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  • Po ta la
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  • Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa
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  • 布達拉宮
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  • Renovated:1989 to 1994, 2002
  • Modern palace constructed by the 5th Dalai Lama in 1645
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  • 1994(xsd:integer)
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  • The Potala Palace (Tibetan: པོ་ཏ་ལ Wylie: Po ta la; simplified Chinese: 布达拉宫 traditional Chinese: 布達拉宮) is located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It was named after Mount Potala, the abode of Chenresig or Avalokitesvara. The Potala Palace was the chief residence of the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharamsala, India, after an invasion and failed uprising in 1959. Today the Potala Palace has been converted into a museum by the Chinese. The building measures 400 metres east-west and 350 metres north-south, with sloping stone walls averaging 3 m. thick, and 5 m. (more than 16 ft) thick at the base, and with copper poured into the foundations to help proof it against earthquakes. Thirteen stories of buildings – containing over 1,000 rooms, 10,000 shrines and about 200,000 statues – soar 117 metres (384 ft) on top of Marpo Ri, the "Red Hill", rising more than 300 m (about 1,000 ft) in total above the valley floor. Tradition has it that the three main hills of Lhasa represent the "Three Protectors of Tibet." Chokpori, just to the south of the Potala, is the soul-mountain (bla-ri) of Vajrapani, Pongwari that of Manjushri, and Marpori, the hill on which the Potala stands, represents Chenresig or Avalokiteshvara.
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