Yungbulakang Palace
Yumbulagang (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་ལྷ་སྒང༌།, ZYPY: Yumbulhagang or Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་མཁར།, ZYPY: Yumbulakar; also known as Yumbu Lakhang or Yungbulakang Palace) is an ancient palace in the Yarlung Valley, Nêdong County in the vicinity of Zêtang the seat of the prefectural administration of Lhoka (Pinyin: Shannan), in the South of Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
According to legend it was the first building in Tibet and the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo. Yungbulakang stands on a hill on the eastern bank of the Yarlung River in the Yarlung Valley of southeast Naidong County, about 192 km southeast of Lhasa, and 9 km south of Tsetang.
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