Lhasa and its around

• Potala palace
• Jokhang temple
• Tsepung monastery
• Sera monastery
• Ramoche
• Hill of medicine master
• Tsupu monastery
• Reting monastery
• Ganden monastery
• Namtso Lake
• Mt. Nyianchentangulha
• Yangbajing
• Norbu lingka
• Pharla Lhufo Grotto Monastery
• Grand Buddha Statue in Nyetang
• Mosques
• The temple of Guanyu

Tsetang and its around

• Samye monastery
• Chandrok temple
• Yongbulakhang Palace
• Mindroling monastery
• Holy Larmonatso lake
• Qhongkejie monastery
• Tombs of Tubo Kings
• Yangdrok Lake

Shigatse and its around

• Tashilunpo monastery
• Perkhor monastery
• Mt. Everest
• Sakya monastery
• Rongbuk monastery
• Pintsolin monastery
• Xialu monastery
• Xixabangma peak

Nari

• Peikutso Lake

Chamdo

• Riwuqi golden pagoda

Riwuqi Golden Pagoda

Riwuqi golden pagoda, built in the mid of 15th century by the famous arctect - Tangdong Gyebu, is located in the village of Riwuqi of Angrhen county. This pagoda is in fact a combination of pagoda and monastery.

The ground floor of this pagoda takes a shape of a Mandala (the notion of Uiniverse in Buddhism), grandually contracts to the top, the top is built of metal in 3 parts reprenting the fire, the sun and the moon. The height of it is 35 meters, looking from the outside, it presents a shape of a pagoda, but inside, it is hollow, and takes a shape of many chambers, ladders lead to the top. On the wall of the chambers are painted wall paintings.

This pagoda looks like the pagoda in Gyangtse - the Perkhor pagoda (built in 1414).