布达拉山

布達拉山

Bùdálāshān

proper noun

Meanings

1 Mount Potala (in Lhasa, Tibet - the hill on which the Potala Palace stands)

Characters

(used phonetically: 'bu')

(used phonetically: 'da')

(used phonetically: 'la')

Examples

HSK 7-9

布达拉宫就建在布达拉山上。

Bùdálāgōng jiù jiàn zài Bùdálāshān shàng.

The Potala Palace is built on Mount Potala.

HSK 7-9

拉萨市中心可以远眺布达拉山。

Lāsà shìzhōngxīn kěyǐ yuǎntiào Bùdálāshān.

From central Lhasa you can see Mount Potala in the distance.

Tips

culture

布达拉 (Bùdálā) is a Tibetan-via-Sanskrit transliteration of Potala, the mountain abode of Avalokiteśvara (Guanyin) in Buddhist cosmology. The Lhasa hill - in Tibetan Marpo Ri 'Red Hill' - was renamed Potala because the Dalai Lamas, considered emanations of Avalokiteśvara, made it their seat. The thirteen-story Potala Palace 布达拉宫 (built 1645-1694 under the Fifth Dalai Lama) crowns it.

Stroke Order

布 bù

达 dá

拉 lā

山 shān