布达拉山

布達拉山

Bùdálāshān

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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

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.

拉萨市中心可以远眺布达拉山。

Lāsà shì zhōngxīn kěyǐ yuǎn tiào Bùdálāshān.

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

Tips

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布达拉 (Bùdálā) is a Tibetan-via-Sanskrit transliteration of Potala (पोतलक), 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