The Potala Palace, པོ་ཏ་ལ, 布达拉宫, was first built in A.D. 631 Tang Dynasty by Songzain Gambo,སྲོང་བཙན
The Potala Palace, པོ་ཏ་ལ, 布达拉宫, was first built in A.D. 631 Tang Dynasty by Songzain Gambo,སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་,松赞干布, king of Tibet, as the wedding gift to his wife, Princess Wencheng文成公主, who was granted by Emperor Taizong of Tang to Songzain Gambo. More than a thousand years passed, after Emperor Shunzhi of Qing dynasty titled Nag dban blo bzan (5th Dalai Lama) ‘西天大善自在佛所领天下释教普通瓦赤喇旦达赖喇嘛’, Nag dban blo bzan began to rebuilt and to expand the Potala Palace in 1645. Since local government of Tibet had been carried out brutal serfdom until in 1959 new china helped millions of slaves overthrew the serf system, the Potala Palace always was and will be the great work of numerous tibetan people, built by their blood and sweat. The Potala Palace became the key historical sites under state protection in 1961 and listed world cultural heritage in 1994. If you would love to know some neoteric and modern history of tibet, I recommend you a book written by tibetan writer, Alai, Red Poppies. -- source link
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