Site Represents a site. Contact mc379@st-andrews.ac.uk Status public Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Potala Palace, Lhasa Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived worldheritagelayer Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mc379 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 312 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,29.65697255629125,91.11718090338401; Description An account of the resource The Potala Palace, located on Mount Maburi in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, is a magnificent fortress-style Tibetan Buddhist complex built in the early 7th century by the Tubo king Songtsen Gampo for his wife, Princess Wencheng from the Tang Dynasty of ancient China.' Potala' is the translation of the Sanskrit word 'potalaka', meaning 'island of light', and is the resident dojo of Bodhisattva Kuan Shi Yin in Buddhism. Potala Palace consists of three parts, the red palace in the center, the east connected to the white palace, the west connected to the Zha Xia, the three through each other. The palace in the plane is made up of many rectangular houses put together, the structure is very complex. The main colors of the palace are red, white and yellow, symbolizing majesty, tranquility and perfection, its color and style have distinctive Tibetan Buddhist characteristics. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 18/05/2021 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. The Potala Palace, Lhasa Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Buddhism