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Lhasa


Located at the foot of Mount Gephel, at an elevation of 11,975 (3,650 meters), Lhasa (sometimes spelled "Llasa") is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. The city has a population of approximately 255,000 people.

Translated literally "Lhasa" means "place of the gods", and the city is the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama, as well as being regarded in Tibetan Buddhism as the holiest site within Tibet.

Tibetan Monks Inside Jokhang Monastery, Lhasa, China
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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet, China
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Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet
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Lightning Over The Potola - Lhasa, Tibet
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Lightning Over The Potola - Lhasa, Tibet

 
 
Two Young Tibetan Boys at Drepung Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet
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Potala Palace, Former Palace of the Dalai Lama, Unesco World Heritage Site, Lhasa, Tibet, China
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Potala Palace, Former Palace of the Dalai Lama, Unesco World Heritage Site, Lhasa, Tibet, China

 
 
White Tara from Monastery Wall, Lhasa, Tibet
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Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa

By Don Brown

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Hardcover (32 pages; 1)

Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel s Journey to Lhasa
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In her time, Alexandra David-Neel was the most famous woman in France. She had traveled extensively in China and Tibet and, in 1924, was the first Western woman ever to enter Tibet"s forbidden capital, Lhasa. Alexandra was a self-taught Buddhist scholar and spoke Tibetan flawlessly. And she did it all as a mature woman—she was in her mid-fifties when she arrived in Lhasa. Not only is Alexandra David-Neel"s story one of high adventure, of trekking through snow-choked mountain passes and wild encounters on the Tibetan tablelands, but it is also about a prolific writer and passionate advocate of Tibetan culture. Far Beyond the Garden Gate reveals an unforgettable life"s journey with vibrant, graceful prose and stunning illustrations.

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

By Alexandra David-neel

Harper Perennial
Released: 2005-08-23
Paperback (376 pages)

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
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An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city.

In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal.

The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike.

David–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales.

Journey to Lhasa in Tibet (Silk Road Travel Series)

By Lawrenson, Brian

Marco Polo Press
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Journey to Lhasa in Tibet (Silk Road Travel Series)
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An ancient, beat-up, rusty Chinese bus is the transport to Lhasa from Nepal. It providing an unforgettable travel experience. Visit the ten storey high Potala Palace once the home of the Dalai Lama and his Summer Palace and the monasteries of Sera and Deprung.

Lhasa Travel Guide

By Offbeat Guides

Offbeat Guides
Released: 2010-07-05
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Lhasa Travel Guide
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To Lhasa in Disguise (Adventure Travel Classics)

By William Montgomery McGovern

Long Riders' Guild Press
Paperback (484 pages)

To Lhasa in Disguise (Adventure Travel Classics)
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Tibet, located high up on the roof of the world, was forbidden to Westerners in the early 20th century. This windswept, snow-covered Himalayan kingdom was the home of the Dalai Lama, the living reincarnation of the Buddha. Hidden behind stony mountains and a phalanx of xenophobic warrior monks, the high Lama resided in his isolated realm, serenely cut off from the outside world.

In 1912 William McGovern, an Oxford trained scholar and an American, determined to get into Lhasa, the capital. An excellent student of Tibetan culture, art, and language, McGovern was a scholar of Buddhist thought and prayer. Because of his religious sympathy that Tibetan authorities grudgingly allowed the American and his tiny caravan to enter their country. He was ordered to go to the first border town, and stop.

However, as "To Lhasa in Disguise" explains, McGovern had no intention of stopping before he reached the forbidden city. What follows is one of the most intriguing tales of travel ever penned. McGovern made his way over dangerous mountain passes, avoided prowling Tibetan patrols, and finally reached his goal, only to be recognized and arrested. Still a vivid tale after all these years, if it is adventure and hair-raising travel you are seeking, then go no further. This book delivers all that, and more.

Memoirs of a mountaineer: Helvellyn to Himalaya and Lhasa, the holy city

By F. Spencer Chapman

Reprint Society
Hardcover (446 pages)

Memoirs of a mountaineer: Helvellyn to Himalaya and Lhasa, the holy city
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Lhasa: Streets with Memories (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)

By Robert Barnett PhD

Columbia University Press
Released: 2006-03-01
Hardcover (244 pages)

Lhasa: Streets with Memories (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new nomenklatura. Crumbling mansions, once home to noble ministers, famous lovers, nationalist spies, and covert revolutionaries, now serve as shopping malls and faux-antique hotels. Each embodiment of the city partakes of the others' memories, whispered across time and along the city streets.

In this imaginative new work, Robert Barnett offers a powerful and lyrical exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Robert Barnett presents a searching and unforgettable portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. His book not only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places.

Barnett juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Tibet, architectural observations, and descriptions by foreign observers to describe Lhasa and its current status as both an ancient city and a modern Chinese provincial capital. His narrative reveals how historical layering, popular memory, symbolism, and mythology constitute the story of a city. Besides the ancient Buddhist temples and former picnic gardens of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa describes the urban sprawl, the harsh rectangular structures, and the geometric blue-glass tower blocks that speak of the anxieties of successive regimes intent upon improving on the past. In Barnett's excavation of the city's past, the buildings and the city streets, interwoven with his own recollections of unrest and resistance, recount the story of Tibet's complex transition from tradition to modernity and its painful history of foreign encounters and political experiment.

Lhasa and Its Mysteries: With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904

By Laurence Austine Waddell

Adamant Media Corporation
Released: 2001-07-02
Paperback (743 pages)

Lhasa and Its Mysteries: With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1906 edition by Methuen & Co., London. With 155 illustrations and maps. Third edition.

To Lhasa and beyond: Diary of the expedition to Tibet in the year MCMXLVIII

By Giuseppe Tucci

Oxford & IBH Pub. Co
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Lhasa the Holy City

By F. Spencer Chapman

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