Objects and Connections at Tashilhunpo
A 2019 Palace Museum exhibition traced Tashilhunpo’s connections through a Panchen portrait, an inscribed Yuan courier pass and records of exchange with the Qing court.
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Tashilhunpo Monastery
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Memorial Architecture at Tashilhunpo
Tashilhunpo’s assembly hall, Maitreya buildings and reliquary halls place collective prayer and remembrance within one carefully arranged hillside monastery.
From Scripture Study to the Gaqin Degree
A detailed account of the current Panchen Lama’s study at Tashilhunpo follows scripture learning, teachers, canonical texts and a two-hour debate for the monastery’s Gaqin degree.
Maitreya at Two Scales in Tashilhunpo
At Tashilhunpo, a Maitreya Hall beside the assembly hall and a 30-metre Great Maitreya Hall to the west give the monastery’s architecture two distinct scales.
Zashilhunpo, a Monastery Shaped by Successive Generations
Founded in 1447 and later expanded, Zashilhunpo’s halls and teaching colleges record a history built through successive generations rather than a single act of construction.