- soul-mountain (Wylie: bla ri) of Vajrapani,
Pongwari that of Manjusri, and
Marpori, the hill on
which the
Potala stands,
represents Avalokiteśvara. Before...
- the
Fifth moved to the
ruins of a
royal fortress or
residence on top of
Marpori ('Red Mountain') in
Lhasa and
decided to
build a
palace on the same site...
-
first structures on the site of what is now the
Potala Palace on
Mount Marpori. In CE 639 and 641,
Songtsen Gampo, who by this time had
conquered the...
-
straddling across the road
leading from
Drepung between the Potala's Red Hill (
Marpori) and the Iron Hill (Chagpori) at Lhasa, Tibet, and
containing a through-p****age...
-
Successive rulers would continue to
expand the
settlement and
build on
mountain Marpori overlooking what
would later be
named the city of Lhasa, Tibet's traditional...
- been
constructed through the spur that used to
connect Chagpori with the
Marpori ('Red Hill') on
which the
Potala is built. At this spur
connecting these...
- the soul-mountain (bla-ri) of Vajrapani,
Pongwari that of Manjushri, and
Marpori, the hill on
which the
Potala stands,
represents Chenresig or Avalokiteshvara...
