#Potala Palace

[lahilden]

Potala Palace

Potala Palace is located in Tibet, China. The fortress was built on Red Mountain in 1649 and served as the winter palace for the Dalai Lamas from 1649-1959. The complex is enclosed within walls, gates, and turrets. The White Palace served as the main ceremonial hall with the Dalai Lama’s throne, with his private rooms and audience hall located on the upper level. The White Palace contains 698 murals, nearly 10,000 painted scrolls, numerous sculptures, porcelain, jade, and a large collection of sutras and historical documents. To the west, higher up the mountain, is the Red Palace which contains the gilded burial stupas of past Dalai Lamas. A private monastery for the Dalai Lama, the Namgyel Dratshang, is also located in this area. The Jokhang Temple Monastery is surrounded by accommodations for the monks and holds over 3,000 images of Buddha and other deities and historical figures. Potala Palace opened as a museum in 1959 and became a World Heritage Site in 1994. 

#CASTLES #potala palace #palaces #lhasa valley #china #tibet #dalai lama #tibetan buddhism #museum

[sheltiechicago]

Lhasa, Tibet

The Potala Palace is lit up at night in Tibet autonomous region. The Chinese government says it has invested heavily in the region to boost Tibet’s economy, but critics say the scale of development is a threat to its culture and environment

Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

#kevin frayer #photographer #getty images #lhasa #tibet #skyline #potala palace #tibet autonomous region #culture

[divinum-pacis]

Women pose in traditional dress in front of the Potala palace.

Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

#religion #buddhism #tibetan buddhism #women #fashion #potala palace #tibet #divinum-pacis

[zegalba]

Yuan Gong: The Potala Palace (2013)

#Yuan Gong #The Potala Palace #bones #sculpture #2013

[dlyarchitecture]

#Potala Palace -Lhasa #Tibet #China

[tkingfisher]

The Saga of Bob, Part Four: Feelings Are Weird

Part I

Part II

Part III

(I kinda suggest starting at #1 for Very Important Context, but hey, you do you.)

Transcribers, you continue to rock on toast.

There is certainly no reason I selected this color for this panel what are you implying how dare

The second I said “horror author” she came out with this. Techs are great.

Potala Palace is 12,300 feet (3750 meters) above sea level.

I realize this last feels like a cliffhanger, but it’s one for me, too. The thyroid people are short-handed and it’s still another two weeks, at the time of posting, until they take a look at it. (I have been told that thyroids sprout nodules like whoa, that thyroid cancers are super treatable, and that it probably is nothing to worry about. Me, I just wonder if my body is collecting these like Pokemon.)

Tune in next time for Part 5, same crab time, same crab channel!

#ursula vernon #art #breast cancer #cancer #the saga of bob

[barbariankingdom]

The Potala Palace, a dzong fortress in Lhasa, Tibet - Autonomous Region in China.

[talonabraxas]

“Green Tara is from the forest. There are two forests that she is particularly associated with. One is the Khadira Forest, and one is Potala. The great palace of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa is named after Potala, which is also a pure land of Avalokitesvara (of whom the Dalai Lama is an incarnation). So she is Tara of the trees, of the wind and of green energy. She is a representation of nature; the wisdom of nature and the compassion of nature in the forest. In the poetry of Tara’s praises, the Khadira forest is described as very lush and beautiful, with wild animals playing and many medicinal herbs growing.”

Shyama Tara (Green Tara) Talon Abraxas

[imustbenuts]

something ive been thinking about.

ive been saying stuff like how FE has been very rooted in shinto buddhism, and ive more than on one occasion said Naga is basically walking shinto buddhism. i still maintain by this bc a lot of other small bits of what she says and does matches with how shinto buddhism operates.

but ive never talked much about sothis.

i kind of lack the specific knowledge atm to highlight the key difference to be talking about sothis, but. sothis is almost 99% not a shinto buddhist buddhism figurehead.

instead, shes most likely a tibetian buddhist one. shes dressed in a way that screams tibetian buddhist prayer flags:

there is nothing about ritual cleansing, nothing about her being the light to purify the darkness (very key thing in shinto buddhism), and overall just... whiffs when it comes to expectations of a Divine Dragon of the FE series

this is also why i think FE3H is the least Fire Emblem like game of the entire series.

Garreg Mach has also some similarities to tibetan monastery architecture. specifically, the Potala Palace:

mountainous and very straight, high walls.

something meta is going on here, but. i lack the braincells to figure it out rn

#fire emblem #fire emblem three houses

[radical-revolution]

Potala palace, Lhasa city, Tibet

[worldhistoryfacts]

Potala Palace can be seen in the background of this photo from a 1938 German expedition to Lhasa, Tibet. In the foreground, monks play dungchens, a type of horn.

{WHF} {HTE} {Medium}

#history #tibet #lhasa #buddhism #china

[vintagewildlife]

Yaks in front of the Potala Palace By: C. Suydam Cutting From: Natural History Magazine 1936

#yak #bovine #ungulate #mammal #1936 #1930s #C. Suydam Cutting #Natural History Magazine

[goblininawig]

Death & Mischief, Part 2

This is one of two short pieces I wrote for Death Appreciation Week, hosted by @orionsangel86 , about two times that Death of the Endless and Loki of Asgard crossed paths.

Death and Mischief At the World's Fair

Once every hundred years, Death of the Endless becomes human. On this day in May 1893, she is Daisy Smith, a visitor to the World’s Columbian Exhibition, better known as the Chicago World's Fair. But she's not the only immortal being present that day.

~600 words | Rated T | a03 link

Includes spoilers for Loki, Season 2

Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Episode: s02e03 1893 (Loki TV), Death Becomes Human for a Day, Historical References, Canon Compliant, Random Encounters, Short One Shot

Daisy chatted excitedly with her cousins, who flanked the smaller girl as they rode the Intramural Railway at the World’s Columbian Exhibition. Charlotte and Beatrice had not, until waking up that morning, had a cousin Daisy. Reality rearranged itself to allow Death of the Endless to become human for a day, once every hundred years. Today she was Daisy Smith, visiting her Chicago relatives so she might see the fair.

Her aunt and uncle sat behind them. It had already been an exciting day, and they were resting their feet as the sounds of brass bands wafted in from the surrounding park. Their little group disembarked at the next station and proceeded to the domed Palace of Fine Arts, where they wandered happily through the galleries, viewing art from masters all over the world.

After stopping for refreshments, they paid a visit to the Chinese Village. Daisy was staring at the red and gold replica of a Potala temple when her attention was drawn to a pair of white gentlemen who were softly arguing nearby.

“I told you: legwork. That requires walking…observing. This time and place is all we've got to go on. So we keep looking until we find a clue,” asserted the shorter man, who had gray hair and a thick mustache beneath his brown fedora.

The taller man, with had dark hair, a green silk tie, and a grumpy expression at odds with the other fair-goers, retorted, “Mobius, do you really think we’ll just stumble across Renslayer if we walk far enough? Because that’s not going to happen.”

“Daisy!” called her aunt, waving her to join them. “Come along, dear. We’re going inside.”

The curious little girl hurried after her relatives, leaving the mysterious men to their argument.

As night fell, all the park lights came on, the fairgrounds seemed even more impressive. Her aunt and uncle were ready to leave, but Daisy, supported by her cousins, begged to ride enormous Ferris Wheel first. The adults capitulated, and they joined the queue.

When they were on board, Daisy pressed close to the wall of the enormous glass carriage, it turned and rose enough for the next carriage to fill with passengers. Finally, their carriage was at the apex of the enormous wheel, and the gleaming lights of the "White City" twinkled down below her.

“Can you believe this is real?” she asked her cousins. “It’s like being in a fairy tale.”

Their carriage turned around the wheel, suddenly showing Daisy a veiw of the two men she’d heard arguing near the temple. They were in the next car with a mustachioed, bespectacled Black gentleman with them. Most shockingly, a white woman in a strange costume was attacking them. Daisy and the other passengers facing the nearby car all gasped and exclaimed over the exchange. Bursts of green light, like some sort of magic trick, kept appearing and disappearing.

“Is it a show?” Charlotte asked.

“I don’t think so,” Daisy replied. “They seem in earnest.”

The commotion ended as quickly as it had begun. No one could understand what had happened. Shortly afterwards, the ride ended. Daisy and her relatives disembarked.

They were heading to the nearest exit when the Ghost Clock, of which they’d heard rumors - appeared suddenly, huge and unbelievable, over the Midway.

“Girls, hurry!” shouted Daisy’s uncle, putting his arms around them and rushing them to safety. Daisy screamed and ran with the other girls. They quickly put the apparition out of sight.

“Well, I shall never forget this night, not in a hundred years!” declared Daisy’s aunt that evening as she tucked the girls into bed. “You’ll certainly have a lot to tell your family when you go home again.”

“I certainly shall,” Daisy replied with a strange, knowing smile.

#the sandman #death of the endless #death appreciation week #loki #loki odinson #mcu #mobius #loki tv #world's fair #crossover #fanfic #sandman fanfiction #rated t #readon a03 #goblininawig

[divinum-pacis]

A Buddhist monk at the Potala palace.

Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

#religion #buddhism #tibetan buddhism #buddhist #monks #potala palace #tibet #divinum-pacis

[sweetswannylawson]

Lhasa is a city that has the mysterious Potala Palace, the magnificent Drepung Monastery, the solemn Jokhang temple.

[ancientorigins]

Potala Palace is an ancient palace located in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. This palace once served as the winter palace of the Dalai Lama, as well as the Tibetan seat of government. Additionally, Potala Palace is considered a symbol of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as its traditional theocratic system of government. Potala Palace is the highest palace in the world.