Yumbulagang

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According to legend the Yumbulagang was the first building in Tibet and the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. Yungbulakang stands on a hill on the eastern bank of the Yarlung River in the Yarlung Valley of southeast Naidong County, about 192 km southeast of Lhasa, and 9 km south of Tsetang The Yumbulagang was heavily damaged and reduced to a single storey during the Cultural revolution but was reconstructed in 1983

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Size: 5240px × 3508px
Location: Tibet Yarlung valley
Photo credit: © CHRIS LEWINGTON / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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