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The Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 16, 2005. Repair work on the Potala Palace and Norbulingka, the former winter and summer palaces of the Dalai Lamas, resumed last week after a suspension of four months due to cold weather.
Engineers survey the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 21, 2005. Repair work on the Potala Palace and Norbulingka, the former winter and summer palaces of the Dalai Lamas, resumed last week after a suspension of four months due to cold weather. The maintenance project kicked off on June 26, 2002 with a budget of 330 million yuan (US$40 million) to help keep the 1,300-year-old Potala Palace, Norbulingka and the Sagya Lamasery erosion.
Tourists visit the Potala Palace, which witnesses the biggest repair work after 1949, in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 16, 2005.
A worker replaces a wood beam inside a hall of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 14, 2005.
A lama cleans sutra books in the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 21, 2005.
A Tibetan prays at the square in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, March 16, 2005.
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