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Apart from the majestic Himalayan scenery, the top attraction in Lhasa is the Potala — a fabulous 13-story building combining the functions of palace, fortress, monastery, and dungeon.
Its great red hall evokes the Potala Palace in Lhasa, and the arcades within are filled with Buddhist treasures, including sensual figures related to the esoteric Buddhism of the Red Hat sect.
Under the reign of Qianlong the temple served as the chief center of Tibetan Buddhism (Yellow Hat sect) outside of Lhasa.
A mile east, the Small Potala Temple (Putuozongshengmiao), the largest at Chengde, evokes the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace in Lhasa and is so steep a climb (164 steps) that sedan-chair carriers do a brisk trade with weary tourists.
Finally, they reached Lhasa, the "forbidden city," in part by duping officials along the way with an out-of-date travel permit.
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