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The Potala School, or Peak School, was founded in 1754 as an elite educational institution located inside the Potala. It was part of the Tse Yigtsang, or eccliastical office. It trained monk-officials for careers in government service.

Sources

Travers, Alice. "Between private and public initiatives? Private schools in pre-1951 Tibet." HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 35, no. 2 (2016): 30.

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