The Potala Palace is located on the Mabuli Mountain of Lhasa, Tibet. The world-famous Potala Palace covers a total area of more than 360,000 square meters and a total construction area of more than 130,000 square meters. The main building is 117 meters high, with a total of 13 floors and an altitude of over 3700 meters. The Potala Palace is composed of palaces, spiritual pagoda halls, Buddhist halls, Buddhist halls, monks' dormitories, courtyards and so on. It is the world's highest and largest palace-style building complex. "Potala" refers to the island where Arya Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva resides, which is transliterated in Sanskrit and also translated as "Putra" or "Putuo". The Potala Palace is commonly known as the second Putuo Mountain.
The Potala Palace is built on a mountain, with magnificent momentum and overlapping floors. It exudes a majestic aura that permeates the sky, with a magnificent golden roof, a flat white matsutake wall collar, solid and thick granite walls, and a strong decorative effect of huge gilded golden vases, buildings, and red flags. The exterior colors are in sharp contrast to red, white and yellow, the architectural forms of segmented and layered interlocking reflect the charming characteristics of Tibetan ancient architecture. Potala Palace is an outstanding representative of Tibetan architecture and the essence of ancient Chinese architecture.
The Potala Palace as a whole is composed of stone and wood structures, which is a masterpiece of architectural genius. Its palace walls are all stacked with granite, the thickness of the rock is 5 meters, and the base of the wall is deep in the rock formation. The outer wall of the Potala Palace is poured with iron juice, which can play the integrity and seismic performance of the building. Meanwhile, it is equipped with gold roof, gold building and other decorations, which can solve the problem of lightning protection of ancient high-rise buildings. For hundreds of years, the Potala Palace has withstood the test of lightning and earthquakes and still stands firm. The palace consists of the red Palace in the central part, the white monasteries in the west, and the White House in the east. Although many buildings are built in different periods, they cleverly utilized the mountainous terrain to make the entire palace and the whole palace temple architecture appear magnificent and coordinated, achieving a high level of aesthetic achievement in architectural art.
