Tibet

What is Tibet?

Tibet, on the lofty Tibetan Plateau on the northern side of the Himalayas, is an autonomous region of China. It's nicknamed the “Roof of the World” for its towering peaks. It shares Mt. Everest with Nepal. It shares Mt. Everest with Nepal. Its capital, Lhasa, is site of hilltop Potala Palace.

What are Tibet's landmarks?

Tibet has many landmarks but the most famous is definitely Potala palace. The Potala Palace is the abode of the greatest leader of Tibetan Buddhism, Dalai Lama, and is therefore considered to be the holiest site of Buddhist religion in Tibet.

Barkhor street, is a place where Tibetan culture,

economy, religion and arts assemble and a place

to which a visit must be paid. Barkhor is the road

that pilgrims tramped out around Jokhang

Temple through centuries. Buddhist pilgrims walk or progress by body-lengths along the street clockwise every day into deep night.

Ganden Monastery, also known as Ganden Namgyeling, is one of the three great Gelug university monasteries (the other two are Sera Monastery and Drepung Monastery) of Tibet, China. It was constructed in 1409 near Lhasa by the founder of the Gelug order, Je Tsongkhapa Lozang-dragpa. Back in 1958, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, took his last degree examination here.

Who is Tibet's leader?

On July 6, an infant named Tenzin Gyatso, future leader of Tibet, is born to a peasant family in Takster, Tibet. At age two, he will be declared the Dalai Lama. In 1937, the child was declared the reincarnation of a great Buddhist spiritual leader and named the 14th Dalai Lama.