What is the best time to visit Jokhang Temple ?

The Jokhang Temple(大昭寺,dà zhāo sì in Chinese) is in the center of Lhasa's old city. It China travel connected to Tibetan Buddhism and also a China's key social relic for security and is detailed into the globe social culture as an prolonged venture of the Potala in Nov of 2001.The lengthy record and regionally well-known stars have created it to have a very great popularity among Buddhist monasteries in Tibet.Excepts having a sovereign position in Tibetan Buddhism, the Jokhang Forehead is also a hot location of Trips Lhasa Tibet accroding to the well-known Lama Nyima cering's speech----Any one who moves in Lhasa without going to the Jokhang Forehead, then his Lhasa trip can not be mentioned.

History of the Jokhang Temple

The Jokhang Forehead was designed about 1,350 decades ago Tibet Travel (at plenty of duration of the Tang Dynasty) and it is the most wonderful Tubo Interval structure which prevails until now. Mixing a design of Tibet, Tang, Nepal and Indian,the Jokhang Forehead is a design of Tibetan spiritual developing without any questions. Most of Tibetan monasteries have their own associate wats or temples, but the Jokhang Forehead is the sacred one which is worshipped by every Tibetan spiritual variations. From this perspective, we could determine that it is a position that must be frequented.

As we all know, the Potala was designed for Tang's Wencheng Queen (niece of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty) who wedded the first Tubo Master Songtsen Gampo (松赞干布).In purchase to honor Songtsen Gampo's another spouse Bhrituti Princess's arriving from Nepaul, the king of Tubo requested to designed it about 647 AD when Tubo Kingdom was at its best. With the remodelling and expansion of the monastery decades by decades, the unique Jokhang Forehead established an tremendous complicated such as more than 20 places now.More China tour tags : Beijing tour packages

The spouses of the king, Nepalese Bhrituti and Wencheng Queen are said to have introduced important Sakyamuni's sculptures to Tibet as aspect of their dowries.Princess Bhrituti introduced a sculpture when Sakyamuni was eight while China tour agents Queen Wencheng introduced a 12 decades of age one. There are only three sculptures of Sakyamuni with the actual size on the globe so that these two are very useful. At the moment, the sculpture introduced by Wencheng is in the Jokhang Forehead and the other one is in the Ramoche Temple(小昭寺).