1/7 · Exterior · Lhassa : palais du PotalaPhoto: Royonx · CC0 · source
2/7 · Exterior · Lhasa - PotálaPhoto: Pavel Špindler · CC BY 3.0 · source
3/7 · Exterior · Potala Palace in LhasaPhoto: Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
4/7 · ExteriorPhoto: Fumikas Sagisavas · CC0 · source
5/7 · Interior · Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama, is the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in IndiaPhoto: Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
6/7 · Interior · Potala Palace in LhasaPhoto: Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
7/7 · Plan · Potala Palace planPhoto: Anonymous Unknown author · Public domain · source
Palace · Historic precedent
Potala Palace
5th Dalai Lama (commissioned) · Lhasa, China · 1694
Key features13 storeys of white and red palace climbing a hill, on inward-sloping stone walls up to 5 m thick.
- Architect
- 5th Dalai Lama (commissioned)
- Place
- Lhasa, China
- Year
- 1694
- Typology
- Palace
- Movement
- Historic precedent
- Region
- East Asia
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