The Treasury of Lives

Tibet Heritage Fund

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.

 

 

 

Sources

Alexander, André. 2018. The traditional Lhasa house: typology of an endangered species. Chicago: Serindia, pp. 86-89.

Petech, Luciano. 1973. Aristocracy and government in Tibet, 1728-1959. Roma: Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, pp. 32-39.

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