It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa.

An impressive display of Tibetan pride, Potala Palace is truly a royal ... and elements far beyond the time it was built from the ground. Today, the palace is one of many famous landmarks in ...

Thousands of residents in Lhasa joined the work in painting the exterior walls of the Potala Palace, an annual routine "makeover" project for the UNESCO World Heritage site. [Photo by Palden Nyima ...

Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only was the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery founded by the first Dalai Lama, but later it became the ...