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Top 10 treasures inside Potala Palace

By Elaine Duan
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Potala Palace is home to a large number of gems and gold treasures. A full counting of them would take several years. It is no exaggeration to say that Potala Palace is held up by gold, which explains its inscription to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1994. Check out the top 10 treasures you cannot miss when visiting the palace.


Perched on top of Hongshan Mountain in the center of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, 3,600 meters above sea level, Potala Palace was first built in 641 by Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo to greet his bride Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It then became the chief residence of the Dalai Lama after it was reconstructed by the Fifth Dalai Lama between 1645 and 1693.


 Statue of Marici (積光佛母)

Marici, the Buddhist goddess of light, appears sitting on an open lotus on the back of a boar. The gold statue was a royal artwork of the Ming Dynasty. It measures 29 centimeters tall, and each of Marici's eight arms holds a Buddhist instrument, while her three faces indicates the original looks of the goddess. The goddess's upper body is decorated only with a glittering necklace. The statue is regarded as a perfect match of Han and Tibetan Buddhist arts and was exhibited at the Forbidden City in 1992.

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