Guge sculptures are mostly sculptures of Buddhist statues in gold and silver. The most established sculptures are known as the Guge Silver Eye Statue. Among which, the murals are the best-preserved and the most in quantity. Guge mural is imposing and the style is unique, fully reflecting each aspect of social life at that time.

The remainder ruins consisted of many buildings and kilns with the same color as earth located from the foot of the mountain to the peak with the height of 300 meters. Other than a few temples, all the houses had collapsed with only dirt walls left. There are fence on the outer ruins with watchtowers on four corners. The entire ruins were built a small mould and were divided into the upper, the middle and lower storey and were the royal palace, temple and the commoners' residence respectively.



Name:Lhasa Guge Dynasty Ancient City Ruins (Guge Wangchao yizhi)
City:Lhasa
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Admission:Free

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