Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet

Lhasa is the capital of the Tibet self-sufficient district in China. It is situated at 3650 meters (12 000 feet) above ocean level on the northern slants of the Himalayas. Lhasa is a city and authoritative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.The primary urban territory of Lhasa is generally comparable to the regulatory outskirts of Chengguan District, which is a piece of the more extensive Lhasa prefecture-level city, a zone in the past directed as a prefecture.Lhasa is the second most crowded city on the Tibetan Plateau in the wake of Xining and, at a height of 3,490 meters (11,450 ft), Lhasa is one of the most elevated urban areas on the planet. The city has been the religious and regulatory capital of Tibet since the mid-seventeenth century. It contains numerous socially huge Tibetan Buddhist locales, for example, the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka Palaces.

Lhasa, which signifies "Place where there is the Gods" and is more than 1,300 years of age, sits in a valley right beside the Lhasa River. In the eastern part of the city, close to the Jokhang Temple and Barkhor neighborhood, Tibetan impact is still solid and clear and it is basic to see generally dressed Tibetans connected with on a kora (a clockwise circumambulation or stroll around the Jokhang Temple), regularly turning petition wheels. The western piece of Lhasa is all the more ethnically Han Chinese in character. It is occupied and present day and seems to be like numerous other Chinese urban areas. A significant part of the framework, for example, banks and government workplaces is to be found there.

History 

By the mid seventh century, Songtsän Gampo turned into the pioneer of the Tibetan Empire that had ascended to control in the Brahmaputra River (privately known as the Yarlung Tsangpo River) Valley.After vanquishing the kingdom of Zhangzhung in the west, he moved the capital from the Chingwa Taktse mansion in Chongye County (pinyin: Qióngjié Xiàn), southwest of Yarlung, to Rasa (Lhasa) where in 637 he raised the main structures on the site of what is currently the Potala Palace on Mount Marpori.In CE 639 and 641, Songtsän Gampo, who at this point had vanquished the entire Tibetan area, is said to have contracted two cooperation relational unions, firstly to a Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal,and then, after two years, to Princess Wencheng of the Imperial Tang court. Bhrikuti is said to have changed over him to Buddhism, which was likewise the confidence credited to his second spouse Wencheng. In 641 he built the Jokhang (or Rasa Trülnang Tsulagkhang) and Ramoche Temples in Lhasa so as to house two Buddha statues, the Akshobhya Vajra (delineating the Buddha at eight years old) and the Jowo Sakyamuni (portraying Buddha at twelve years old), separately conveyed to his court by the princesses. Lhasa endured broad harm under the rule of Langdarma in the ninth century, when the consecrated destinations were devastated and defiled and the domain divided.

A Tibetan custom says that after Songtsän Gampo's demise in 649 C.E., Chinese troops caught Lhasa and smoldered the Red Palace.Chinese and Tibetan researchers have noticed that the occasion is said neither in the Chinese archives nor in the Tibetan compositions of Dunhuang.

Atmosphere 

Because of its high rise, Lhasa has a cool semi-bone-dry atmosphere (Köppen: BSk) with chilly winters and gentle summers, yet the valley area shields the city from serious frosty or heat and solid winds. Month to month conceivable daylight ranges from 53 percent in July to 84 percent in November, and the city gets 

about 3,000 hours of daylight every year. It is in this way infrequently called the "sunlit city" by Tibetans. The coldest month is January with a normal temperature of −1.6 °C (29.1 °F) and the hottest month is June with a day by day normal of 16.0 °C.

Topography 

Lhasa has a rise of around 3,600 m (11,800 ft)and lies in the focal point of the Tibetan Plateau with the encompassing mountains ascending to 5,500 m (18,000 ft). The air just contains 68 percent of the oxygen contrasted with ocean level.The Kyi River (or Kyi Chu), a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River, goes through the southern part of the city. This waterway, referred to neighborhood Tibetans as the "joyful blue waves", courses through the snow-secured tops and chasms of the Nyainqêntanglha mountains, developing 315 km (196 mi), and exhausting into the Yarlung Zangbo River at Qüxü, shapes a region of incredible picturesque magnificence. The marshlands, generally uninhabited, are toward the north.Ingress and departure streets run east and west, while toward the north, the street base is less created.