Something about About Jokhang Temple

Located in the middle of the old town of Lhasa, Jokhang Forehead is the first Buddhist temple in Tibet. It is also the Holy Forehead of all Tibetan Buddhists. All year-round many Tibetan Buddhists go on a pilgrimage to Lhasa,China travel service from all over Tibet and other regions like Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia, and their place is the Jokhang Forehead.

In the middle of the 7th millennium, the excellent Tibetan Master of the Tubo Empire,Tibet tour Songtsen Gampo (617- 650 AD) wedded the Nepalese Queen Tritsun and the China Queen Wencheng, each of whom introduced into Tibet a sculpture of Sakyamuni.

At that period there were very few structures and individuals were residing in camp tents, to say nothing of castles. To be able to enshrine and praise these two important sculptures, Queen Wencheng recommended that they develop two wats or temples. According to the tale, several flooding happened during the procedure of the development. Queen Wencheng described that the Qinghai-Tibet Level was a relaxing Raksasi, and the river, where they were going to develop the Jokhang Forehead was her center and the river h2o was her blood vessels.

To enhance the throne of the Tubo Empire,China tour operator they must build the temple over the river so that they could reduce the Raksasi and merge australia. White-colored goat's were used to bring sand and world to complete the river. To honor the excellent perform of the goat's, the Jokhang Forehead was first known as Rasa, which in Tibetan indicates 'goats bring the earth'. When you check out the temple, you will discover a sculpture of a little goat in one area, which is covered with silver and is still worshiped as a heavenly goat nowadays.

The Ramoche Monastery was designed to consecrate the life-sized sculpture of the 12 year-old Sakyamuni and the Jokhang Forehead to consecrate the life-sized sculpture of the eight year-old Sakyamuni. In 710 AD, luxury China tours China Queen Jincheng wedded another Master of Tubo and changed the place of the two statues; nowadays the sculpture of the of 12 year-old Sakyamuni is in the Jokhang Forehead and the sculpture of eight year-old Sakyamuni is in the Ramoche Monastery.