Yungbulakang Palace
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Yumbu Lakhang (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་སྒང།, Wylie: yum bu bla sgang; Chinese: 雍布拉康) or Yumbu Lakhar (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་མཁར།, Wylie: yum bu bla mkhar,[1] also known as Yumbu Lakhang) is an ancient structure in the Yarlung Valley in the vicinity of Tsetang, Nêdong County, the seat of Lhoka Prefecture, in Tibet.
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Yungbu Lakhang Palace | |
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ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ | |
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Affiliation | Tibetan Buddhism |
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Location | Lhoka, Tibet Autonomous Region, China |
Geographic coordinates | 29.14258°N 91.80270°E / 29.14258; 91.80270 |
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Demolished | 1966 |
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According to legend, it was the first building in Tibet and the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. Yumbu Lakhang stands on a hill on the eastern bank of the Yarlung River in the Yarlung Valley of southeast Nêdong County about 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Lhasa and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Tsetang.[2]