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Norbulingka
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- Norbulingka also refers to the Norbulingka Institute.
Norbulingka (Wylie transliteration|Wylie: Nor-bu-gling-ka) is a palace and surrounding park in Lhasa, Tibet which served as the traditional summer residence of the successive Dalai Lamas from the 1780's up until the People's Republic of China|PRC takeover in the late 1950s. The park was built by the Kelzang Gyatso, 7th Dalai Lama|Seventh Dalai Lama in the 1750s, and became the summer residence during the reign of the Jamphel Gyatso, 8th Dalai Lama|Eighth Dalai Lama.
The palace is located three kilometers west of the Potala Palace which was the winter palace. Additional buildings were added to the park during the first half of the 20th century. In 2001, UNESCO inscribed Norbulingka on its World Heritage List as part of the "Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace".
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