Alongside Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple is one of the most important sites in Tibet. The Jokhang Temple was built in the seventh century to promote Buddhism in Tibet, and as such earned the ...

Barkhor Street is one big circular street that goes around Jokhang Temple and is filled to the brim with shops and stalls catering to those who want to take a little piece of Tibet home.

In 2005, Qambalin was built by its first chief priest, now 84-year-old Eibin Morishita, and modeled after the Jokhang Temple Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lhasa. "Qamba," also spelled ...

At the beginning of March 1959, 7,000 rebels seized control of the Potala Palace, the Norbulinka Monastery, the Jokhang Temple, the Ramoche Temple and other major public buildings in Lhasa ...

Also founded in the 7th century, the Jokhang Temple Monastery is an exceptional Buddhist religious complex. Norbulingka, the Dalai Lama's former summer palace, constructed in the 18th century, is a ...