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布达拉宫英语导游词
【篇一：布达拉宫英文导游词】
the palace is more than 117 meters (384 feet) in
height and 360
(1180 feet) in width,
occupying a building space of 90 thousand
square meters. potala is composed of
white palace and red
palace. the former
is for secular use while the later is for
religious.
the
white palace consists of offices, dormitories, a
buddhist
official seminary and a
printing house. from the east entrance
of the palace, painted with images of
four heavenly kings, a
broad corridor
upwards leads to deyang shar courtyard, which
used to be where dalai lamas watched
operas. around the large
and open
courtyard, there used to be a seminary and
dormitories. west of the courtyard is
the white palace. there are
three
ladder stairs reaching inside of it, however, the
central
one was reserved for only dalai
lamas and central government
magistrates dispatched to . in the
first hallway, there are huge
murals
describing the construction of potala palace and
jokhang temple and the procession of
princess wencheng
reaching . on the
south wall, visitors will see an edict signed
with the great fifth’s handprint. the
white palace mainly serves
as the
political headquarter and dalai lamas’ living
quarters.
the west chamber of sunshine
and the east chamber of
sunshine lie as
the roof of the white palace. they belonged to
the thirteenth dalai lama and the
fourteenth dalai lama
respectively.
beneath the east chamber of sunshine is the
largest hall in the white palace, where
dalai lamas ascended
throne and ruled
.
the red palace was
constructed after the death of the fifth dalai
lama. the center of the complicated red
palace is the great west
hall, which
records the great fifth dalai lama’s life by its
fine
murals. the scene of his visit to
emperor shunzhi in beijing in
1652 is
extraordinarily vivid. it also has finely carved
columns
and brackets. the hall has four
additional chapels. the west
chapel
houses three gold stupas of the fifth, tenth and
twelfth
dalai lamas’. their mummified
and perfumed bodies are well
kept in
those stupas. among the three, the
fift
h dalai lama’s
stupa is
the biggest, which is made of sandalwood, wrapped
in
gold foil and decorated with
thousands of diamonds, pearls,
agates
and others gems. the stupa, with a height of 14.86
meters (49 feet), spends more than
3,700 kilograms of gold. the
north
chapel contains statues of sakyamuni, dalai lamas
and
medicine buddha, and stupas of the
eighth, ninth and eleventh
dalai lamas.
against the wall is tanjur (beijing edition), a
most
important an buddhist sutra sent
to the seventh dalai lama by
emperor
yongzheng. in the east chapel a two meters (6.5
feet)
high statue of tsong
khap
a, the founder of
gelugpa which is dalai lama’s lineage, is
enshrined and worshipped. the south
chapel is where a silver
statue of
padmasambhava and 8 bronze statues of his
reincarnations are enshrined. on the
floor above, there is a
gallery which
has a collection of 698 murals, portraying
buddhas, bodhisattvas, dalai lamas and
great adepts and
narrating jataka
stories and significant an historic events. west
of the great w
est hall
locates the thirteenth dalai lama’s stupa
hall. since he was regarded as great as
the great fifth, people
started to
build his stupa after his death in the fall of
1933. the
highest hall of potala was
built in 1690. it used to be the holy
shrine of chinese emperors. dalai lamas
would come here with
his officials and
high lamas to show their respects to the
central government annually
before.
【篇二：布达拉宫的英文导游词】
potala palace
in 641, after marrying princess winching, songster
gump
decided to build a grand palace to
for her and in memory of the
event.
however, the original palace was destroyed due to
a
lightning strike and succeeding
warfare during landama’s time.
in the
seventeenth century when the fifth dalai lama was
in
power, potala was rebuilt. the
thirteenth dalai lama expanded it
to
today’s scale. the monastery
-like
palace, leaning against red
hill, was
the religious and political center of old and the
winter
palace of dalai lamas. the
palace is more than 117 meters (384
feet) high and 360 (1180 feet) wide,
with an area of 90 thousand
square
meters. potala includes white palace and red
palace.
the white palace is for guests
while the red one is for religion.
the white palace consists of offices,
dormitories, a buddhist
official
seminary and a printing house. from the east
entrance
of the palace, painted with
images of four heavenly kings, a
broad
corridor upwards leads to deyang shar courtyard,
which
was where dalai lamas watched
operas. around the large and
open
courtyard, there was a seminary and dormitories.
the
white palace is to the west of the
courtyard. there are three
ladder
stairs to get inside of it, but the central one
was only
used by dalai lamas and
central governors. in the first hallway,
there are huge wall paintings
describing the building of potala
palace and jokhang temple and the
procession of princess
wencheng
reaching. on the south wall, visitors will see an
edict
signed with the great fifth’s
handprint. the white palace mainly
serves as the political headquarter and
dalai lama
s’ living
quarters. the west chamber of sunshine
and the east chamber
of sunshine is the
roof of the white palace. they belonged to
the thirteenth dalai lama and the
fourteenth dalai lama
respectively. beneath the east chamber of sunshine
is the
largest hall in the white
palace, where dalai lamas came to
power. the red palace was built after
the death of the fifth dalai
lama. the
center of the complicated red palace is the great
west
hall, which records the great
fifth dalai lama’s life by its fine
wall paintings. the painting which
shows his visit to emperor
shunzhi in
beijing in 1652 is impressive. the hall has four
additional chapels. the west chapel
stores three gold
stupas
（舍利子）
of the fifth,
tenth and twelfth dalai lamas’. their
bodies are well kept in those stupas.
among the three, the fifth
dalai lama’s
stupa is the biggest, which is made of sandalwood,
wrapped in gold foil and decorated with
thousands of
diamonds, pearls,
agates
（玛瑙）
and others
gems
（宝石）
. the
stupa, which is 14.86 meters (49 feet)
high, uses more than
3,700 kilograms of
gold. the north chapel contains statues of
sakyamuni, dalai lamas and medicine
buddha, and stupas of
the eighth, ninth
and eleventh dalai lamas. against the wall is
tanjur (beijing edition), a very
important buddhist sutra sent to
the
seventh dalai lama by emperor yongzheng. in the
east
chapel a two meters (6.5 feet)
high statue of tsong khapa, the
founder
of gelugpa which is dalai lama’s ancestor, is
remembered and worshipped. in addition,
about 70 famous
experts in an buddhism
surround him. the south chapel is
where
a silver statue of