According to the palace's renovation department, the first large-scale repairs of the Potala Palace were made ... work mainly involving seven golden roofs," says Dawa Ngodrub, an official of ...

The Potala Palace is the biggest extant lamasery in China. Inside the Potala the hails housing chortens are holy places and therefore their roofs are gilded. Kept there are chortens of the fifth ...

Perched on crimson shoulders, Potala ascends a celestial stairway. Alabaster walls cradle golden roofs. Ancient stones ... the Potala Palace in the heart of Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous ...

It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa.