The Jokhang (Tibetan: ཇོ་ཁང།, Chinese: 大昭寺), or the Ra sa 'phrul snang gtsug lag khang, or Qoikang Monastery, or Zuglagkang (Tibetan: གཙུག་ལག་ཁང༌།, Wylie:...
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culturally significant Tibetan Buddhist sites such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces. Lhasa literally translates to "place of...
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city after the Jokhang Temple. Situated in the northwestern part of the Tibetan capital, it is east of the Potala and north of the Jokhang. The site occupies...
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inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994. In 2000 and 2001, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka were added to the list as extensions to the sites...
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the spread of Buddhism to Tibet. The Jowo Mikyo Dorje was placed in the Jokhang which was purpose built in c.640 for the statue. The Jowo Shakyamuni Rinpoche...
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Tibet from the Potala and Norbulingka palaces in Lhasa from the last one. Jokhang, a Tibetan Buddhist temple, is located there. The Lhasa dialect is used...
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Drepung Monastery Drongtse Monastery Dzogchen Monastery Ganden Monastery Jokhang Monastery Kathok Khorzhak Monastery Menri Monastery Mindrolling Monastery...
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route around the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, China. The Barkhor is a popular devotional circumambulation around the historic Jokhang for pilgrims and...
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Ganden) gathered fri chant prayers and perform religious rituals at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. The inaugural celebration attracted many devotees, and...
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Kings of Tibet, he formally introduced Buddhism to Tibet and built the Jokhang with the influence of his Nepali queen Bhrikuti, of Nepal's Licchavi dynasty...
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forces. The Qianlong Emperor issued two Golden Urns. One is enshrined in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa and is to be used for choosing Dalai and Panchen Lama reincarnations;...
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two countries, is inscribed on a stone pillar which stands outside the Jokhang temple in Lhasa. Tibet continued as a Central Asian empire until the mid-9th...
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known for his great love for animals. According to sources, he rescued the Jokhang temple in Lhasa from flooding by placing a kata (white scarf) over the...
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man-made, but "rangjung", self arisen or autogenic. For example, in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa is a rangjung goats head in a side chapel protruding out...
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Gampo and Princess Wencheng led the migration to Lhasa, first built the Jokhang, where Tibetan Buddhism believers began to turn around the monastery, and...
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and a major tourist destination with sights such as the Potala Palace, Jokhang and Ramoche Temple.[citation needed] Lhasa prefecture-level city roughly...
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唐蕃會盟碑; pinyin: Táng-Bō Huìméng Bēi) is a stone pillar standing outside the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The inscription is written...
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yoga Thukdam Buddhahood Major monasteries Tradruk Drepung Dzogchen Ganden Jokhang Kumbum Labrang Mindrolling Namgyal Narthang Nechung Pabonka Palcho Ralung...
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Buddhists performing prostrations in front of Jokhang Monastery....
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Buddhism to Tibet, together with the Jowo Mikyo Dorje statue for which the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa was built. Even though the historicity of Bhrikuti Devi...
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Architecture of Lhasa (section Jokhang)
inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994. In 2000 and 2001, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka were added to the list as extensions to the sites...
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Dharmachakra Pravartana at National Museum, New Delhi Shanti Stupa, Leh Jokhang Monastery Wat Phothivihan, Tumpat, Kelantan Entrance to Wat Phra Sing Seal...
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spending millions on renovating the Potala Palace and Jokhang Temple, the Old Town surrounding the Jokhang was evidently not considered worthy of protection...
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Dalai Lama "I received my ordination from Kyabjé Ling Rinpoché in the Jokhang in Lhasa." There was very limited Chinese involvement at this time. The...
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for the next three days. The last Tibetan resistance was centered on the Jokhang, where Khampa refugees had set up machine guns, while a large number of...
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yoga Thukdam Buddhahood Major monasteries Tradruk Drepung Dzogchen Ganden Jokhang Kumbum Labrang Mindrolling Namgyal Narthang Nechung Pabonka Palcho Ralung...
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yoga Thukdam Buddhahood Major monasteries Tradruk Drepung Dzogchen Ganden Jokhang Kumbum Labrang Mindrolling Namgyal Narthang Nechung Pabonka Palcho Ralung...
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makara heads at the parasol edge, supporting little silver bells (see the Jokhang Dhvaja on the left). A smaller victory banner fashioned on a beaten copper...
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of detained monks from Jokhang Monastery. Reports from Taiwanese journalists also invited on the tour stated that the Jokhang monks told them that they...
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including the Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka * Tibet 1994, 2000, 2001 i, iv, vi The Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, including the Jokhang Temple and...
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