The former mansion of the Yabzhi Sampho or Samdrub Podrang family, this was a three storey stone building in the Jokhang area. The Sampho manor house was the Lhasa residence of the family of the Seventh Dalai Lama; the family's primary residence was Samdrub Podrang Palace in the Zangri Valley. Built in the seventeenth century, the Sampho building is still extant.