Norbulingka ("The Jewelled Park") was the summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780s up until 1959 where the 14th Dalai Lama fled from here. The park is located three kilometers west of the Potala.
The park was built by the Seventh Dalai Lama beginning in 1755, and became the summer residence during the reign of the Eighth Dalai Lama.
The place is now a public park, a favourite picnic spot and provides a beautiful venue for theatre, dancing and festivals, particularly the Sho Dun or 'Yoghurt Festival', with families camping in the grounds for days surrounded by colourful makeshift windbreaks of rugs and scarves and enjoying the height of summer weather.
We arrived here in the afternoon after visiting Potala and were thoroughtly immense in the festive mood of the Yoghurt Festival, as you can see from the photos of the Tibetan and picknickers on the grounds of the park.
The park was built by the Seventh Dalai Lama beginning in 1755, and became the summer residence during the reign of the Eighth Dalai Lama.
The place is now a public park, a favourite picnic spot and provides a beautiful venue for theatre, dancing and festivals, particularly the Sho Dun or 'Yoghurt Festival', with families camping in the grounds for days surrounded by colourful makeshift windbreaks of rugs and scarves and enjoying the height of summer weather.
We arrived here in the afternoon after visiting Potala and were thoroughtly immense in the festive mood of the Yoghurt Festival, as you can see from the photos of the Tibetan and picknickers on the grounds of the park.
1. Entrance of Norbulingka
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2. Kelsang Potrang, summer residence of the 8th Dalai Lama
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3. Door to Drunzig Potrang
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4 & 5. "Agar" is a singing and dancing during construction work. It is an old and traditional art of singing and working while constructing monasteries, palaces, and manors, and repairing building roofs or the inside and outside floors. The workers sang while swaying, circling and stamping the floor with a bokto -- a flattener on a long pole affixed with bells.
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6 to 8. Takten Migyur Potrang, summer palace of the 14th Dalai Lama. The compound contains chapels, gardens, fountains and pools.
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9. The Pavilion outside Drunzig Potrang, library and retreat of the 13th Dalai Lama
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10. The Dalai Lama viewing pavilion on the eastern wall of Kelsang Potrang, which overlooks the opera ground where performances were held during the Yoghurt festival
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11 to 13. Tibetan Opera
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14. Campers and picnickers on the ground of Norbunlinka
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