Lhasa, Tibet

If Tibet is the "roof of the planet," then its capital city , Lhasa also known as the “city of the sun.” Standing  over about 4500 m above from the sea level, surrounded by high mountains, Lhasa is a town bathed in daylight. 

Tibet has suffered unsteady fortunes over the centuries. Historical records reveal little regarding the region before the 7th century, when King Songzan Ganbu (617-650 A.D.) unified the area and introduced the Sanskritic language alphabet. During this centuries of king Songzan Ganbu Buddhism took root in Tibet, pilgrims are travelling to China  by the "Silk Road" so much to the north. 

Buddhism was influenced by the local faith, called Bon, and developed into a form known as Tibetan Buddhism. By the 10th century, the religious movement began to say political leadership yet. In 1573, a reincarnation of Zongkaba, the inventor of the "yellow hat"  devoted to religious improve, became the first lama. 

POTALA PALACE 

The Potala Palace dominates the city of Lhasa from its web site atop Red Mountain . It served as a fortress and as the residence of the Dalai Lamas, and so was the middle of each political and non secular power in Thibet, remaining today associate vastly in style journeying web site. Divided into White and Red Palaces, the complex rises a hundred and ten m (360 ft) high and expand 360 m (1,200 ft) across  and it was one of the world’s tallest buildings before the time of contemporary skyscrapers. It has thirteen stories and containing over a thousand rooms and a few two million images, the palace complex took the work of additional than seven thousand laborers and 1,500 artists for additional than fifty years to finish. Beneath the defensive structure area unit the dungeons wherever those United Nations agency ran foul of the adherent theocracy were confined and tortured.

THE JOKHANG TEMPLE 

The magnificent Jokhang Temple, founded additional than one,300 years past, is situated in the center of Lhasa. In front of the gate stands a stone tablet from the Tang dynasty its bearing both Chinese characters and Tibetan script. Nearby is the Tang tree planted by aristocrat pilar cyst Cheng. 

DREPUNG  MONASTERY 

Its also famous building in Lhasa, is the Drepung cloister settled six miles north of town. Standing on a high rock, its many tiers preference into a dizzy mountain face, the monastery is designed in ancient Tibetan vogue. Founded in 1416, it was one among the centers of the "yellow hat" sect, and in its time was the largest of the three nice monasteries close to Lhasa, housing 10,000 lamas. The temples of the monastery area unit lavishly adorned with statues of the Buddha, Zongkaba, and others of the Buddhist pagoda. The monastery is still hospitable worshippers. 

MOUNT QOMOLANGMA 

Mount Qomolangma, meaning "goddess the third" in the Tibetan language, or Mt. Everest as familiar in the West, is the world's highest peak, more than thirty-nine,000 feet high. 

It is everybody's wish to check the world's highest peak, of course, but it is best to appreciate it from far away, and leave  to climbing the mountaineers.