Norbulingka
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thumb|Entrance to Norbulingka in 1938|alt=|253x253px thumb|Front gate to the Dalai Lama's summer residence, 1938|alt=|253x253px Norbulingka (; Wylie: Nor bu gling ga; ; literally "Jeweled Park") is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet built from 1755. It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959. Part of the "Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace", Norbulingka is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was added as an extension of this Historic Ensemble in 2001. It was built by the 7th
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- Tibetan Buddhist monastery.name
- Norbulingka
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- Norbulingka in 2017
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- Nor bu gling ga
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- 羅布林卡
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- 罗布林卡
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- Tibet
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- Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
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- 250
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- China
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- Lhasa, Tibet
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- 7th Dalai Lama
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- 1755, completed 1783
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thumb|Entrance to Norbulingka in 1938|alt=|253x253px thumb|Front gate to the Dalai Lama's summer residence, 1938|alt=|253x253px Norbulingka (; Wylie: Nor bu gling ga; ; literally "Jeweled Park") is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet built from 1755. It served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in 1959. Part of the "Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace", Norbulingka is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was added as an extension of this Historic Ensemble in 2001. It was built by the 7th Dalai Lama and served both as administrative centre and religious centre. It is a unique representation of Tibetan palace architecture.
Norbulingka Palace is situated in the west side of Lhasa, a short distance to the southwest of Potala Palace. Norbulingka covers an area of around and considered to be the largest man-made garden in Tibet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Norbulingka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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