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Potala Palace, from the Jokhang rooftop<br> Xisang Province picture - The thousand room Potala dominates Lhasa -- home of Tibet's religious and secular rulers since 1645. With the present Dalai Lama living in exile in India, the Palace has become a vast museum, featuring dozens of chapels, gold and jewel encrusted tombs of deceased Dalai Lamas, and a mandala made of 20,000 pearls. Photos of the interior are forbidden, so photographers must settle for striking external views such as this one, made from the rooftop of the nearby Jokhang Temple.
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The thousand room Potala dominates Lhasa -- home of Tibet's religious and secular rulers since 1645. With the present Dalai Lama living in exile in India, the Palace has become a vast museum, featuring dozens of chapels, gold and jewel encrusted tombs of deceased Dalai Lamas, and a mandala made of 20,000 pearls. Photos of the interior are forbidden, so photographers must settle for striking external views such as this one, made from the rooftop of the nearby Jokhang Temple.
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