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Visualizing Historic Lhasa ལྷ་ས།

Guoping Huang, D.Des.

School of Architecture

University of Virginia

Team

David Germano, Professor in Tibetan Studies

Kurtis Schaeffer, Professor in Tibetan Studies

Guoping Huang, Assistant professor in urban and environmental planning

Will Rourk, Digital specialist at the Digital Media Lab

Steve Weinberger, Database manager at the Tibetan and Himalayan Library

Zihao Zhang, Research assistant

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The 5th Dalai Lama (1617 – 1682)

https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/LhasaVR/

http://www.nipic.com/

http://www.nipic.com/ & Pitt River Museum

Zhol Village covers 50,000 sq m. of the Potala Palace complex. It includes of 22 ancient buildings which cover an area of 33,470 sq m. These buildings once included housing as well as the city jail and government offices (for the city's administration, judiciary, revenue, and mint).

Potala south face from Chakpori© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford