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- the Norbulingka Palace (pictured) in Lhasa was added by UNESCO as an extension of the Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace in 2001?
- the Tibet Museum (pictured) in Lhasa, established in 1999, is the first large-sized modern museum in the Tibet Autonomous Region?
- the great Sera Monastery (pictured) in Lhasa, Tibet, has 19 affiliated hermitages, including 4 nunneries: Chupzang, Garu, Negodong and Nenang Nunnery?
- the Dodé Valley, north of Lhasa, Tibet, contains both the Purbuchok Hermitage (pictured) and Sera Utsé Hermitages?
- in the Sera Chöding Hermitage (pictured) in Lhasa, Tibet, according to a local legend, the ‘local site-spirit’ used to enter through a small window to meet Tsongkhapa?
- Pabonka Hermitage, near Lhasa, is one of the earliest known buildings built by Songtsän Gampo in the Tibetan Empire and is believed to be the site at which the Tibetan alphabet was invented?
- Tawang Monastery in northeastern India is said to be the largest Buddhist monastery in the world outside of Lhasa, Tibet?
- Phuntsok Wangyal, a progressive pro-communist Tibetan who founded the Tibetan Communist Party, once taught at Tromzikhang in Barkhor, Lhasa?
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