White Palace, Red Palace: Reading the Potala
On Lhasa’s Red Mountain, the Potala joins ceremonial rooms, residences and religious spaces in a single stepped complex.
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Potala Palace
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The Potala’s Painted Walls and Written Leaves
Murals, scroll paintings and palm-leaf manuscripts reveal another scale of the Potala, where architecture shelters fragile surfaces and recorded knowledge.
Why the Potala Belongs to Lhasa’s Valley
UNESCO places the Potala at 3,700 metres on Red Mountain, where the White and Red Palaces rise above Lhasa’s broad valley.