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The Architecture of the Medical College on Chakpori, Lhasa
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Fig. 2:
Panorama of Lhasa from the south
Marpori with Potala and Chakpori with the Medical College stand out on the flat valley bottom
Photograph by F. Spencer Chapman
1936
Kyichu River is running from east to west (towards left in the photo). The Old town to the right is centred around the Jokhang Temple while Marpori and Chakpori are rising from an open landscape about 1.5 kilometres further west. The surrounding mountains are rising up to 2000 metres over the valley floor on 3600 m.
From the book: Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen, The Lhasa Atlas. Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape (London : Serindia Publications, 2001), 16-17.