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'''Chakpori''' ([[Wyl.]] ''lcags po ri'', ''lcags kha ri''), the 'Iron Colour Mount', a sacred hill near the [[Potala]] to the south-west of [[Lhasa]], on top of which was the medical college for many centuries.
[[Image:Chakpori_Bell.jpg|thumb|350px|Chakpori by Charles Bell 1920-1921]]
'''Chakpori''' (Tib. ལྕགས་པོ་རི་, [[Wyl.]] ''lcags po ri'') or '''Chakhari''' (Tib. ལྕགས་ཁ་རི་, Wyl. ''lcags kha ri''), the 'Iron Colour Mount', is a sacred hill near the [[Potala]] to the south-west of [[Lhasa]], on top of which stood the famous medical college founded in 1695 (or 1696 according to some sources).
 
==External Links==
*[http://treasuryoflives.org/institution/Chakpori Chakpori on Treasury of Lives]


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[[Category: Places]]
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[[Category: Tibet]]

Latest revision as of 20:02, 26 January 2018

Chakpori by Charles Bell 1920-1921

Chakpori (Tib. ལྕགས་པོ་རི་, Wyl. lcags po ri) or Chakhari (Tib. ལྕགས་ཁ་རི་, Wyl. lcags kha ri), the 'Iron Colour Mount', is a sacred hill near the Potala to the south-west of Lhasa, on top of which stood the famous medical college founded in 1695 (or 1696 according to some sources).

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