ලාසා

ලාසා යනු මහජන චීන සමූහාණ්ඩුවේ ටිබෙට් ස්වාධීන පළාතේ අගනුවරයි. ලාසාහි ප්‍රධාන නාගරික ප්‍රදේශය චෙන්ගුආන් දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙහි පරිපාලන සීමාවන්ට අයත් වේ.

ලාසා චෙන්ගුආන්
(මහ නගරය)
ඉහළ වමේ සිට: පන්සලේ වහළය; ආරාමයේ ප්‍රධාන දොරටුව; ; ; ටිබෙට් යාඥා රෝදය; ලාසා නගරයේ චන්ද්‍රිකා ජායාරූපක්
චෙන්ගුආන් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය (අළු) තුළ ලාසා නගරය (කහ)
රට	චීනය
ආණ්ඩුව / පරිපාලනය
• අධිකරණ වර්ගය
• නගරාධිපති
• නියෝජ්‍ය නගරාධිපති
තැපැල් කේතය	850000

ලාසා
Chinese name
	城关区
	城關區
Transcriptions
Also known as
	拉萨
	拉薩
Literal meaning	(Tibetan) "Place of the Gods"
Transcriptions Lāsà
Second alternative Chinese name
	逻些
	邏些
Transcriptions Luóxiē
Tibetan name
	ལྷ་ས་
Transcriptions lha sa Lhasa Lhasa [l̥ásə] or [l̥ɜ́ːsə]

මෙම නගරය 17 වන සියවසේ මැද භාගයේ ටිබෙටයේ ආගමික හා පරිපාලන අගනුවර විය. පොටාලා මාලිගය, ජොකාන්ග් පන්සල හා නොරුබුලින්කා මාළිගාව වැනි බොහෝ සංස්කෘතික වශයෙන් වැදගත් වූ ටිබෙට් බෞද්ධ සිද්ධස්ථාන මෙම නගරයෙහි පිහිටා ඇත.

ඉතිහාසය

රජු

By the mid 7th century, became the leader of the that had risen to power in the (locally known as the ) Valley. After conquering the kingdom of in the west, he moved the capital from the Chingwa in (: Qióngjié Xiàn), southwest of , to Rasa (Lhasa) where in 637 he raised the first structures on the site of what is now the on Mount Marpori. In CE 639 and 641, Songtsän Gampo, who by this time had conquered the whole Tibetan region, is said to have contracted two alliance marriages, firstly to a Princess of Nepal, and then, two years later, to of the Imperial court. Bhrikuti is said to have converted him to Buddhism, which was also the faith attributed to his second wife Wencheng. In 641 he constructed the (or Rasa Trülnang Tsulagkhang) and in Lhasa in order to house two , the (depicting the Buddha at the age of eight) and the (depicting Buddha at the age of twelve), respectively brought to his court by the princesses. Lhasa suffered extensive damage under the reign of in the 9th century, when the sacred sites were destroyed and desecrated and the empire fragmented.

A Tibetan tradition mentions that after Songtsän Gampo's death in 649 C.E., Chinese troops captured Lhasa and burnt the Red Palace. Chinese and Tibetan scholars have noted that the event is mentioned neither in the Chinese annals nor in the Tibetan manuscripts of . Lǐ suggested that this tradition may derive from an . believes that "those histories reporting the arrival of Chinese troops are not correct."

From the fall of the monarchy in the 9th century to the accession of the , the centre of political power in the Tibetan region was not situated in Lhasa. However, the importance of Lhasa as a religious site became increasingly significant as the centuries progressed. It was known as the centre of Tibet where magically pinned down the earth demoness and built the foundation of the over her heart. Islam has been present since the 11th century in what is considered to have always been a monolithically Buddhist culture. Two communities have lived in Lhasa with distinct homes, food and clothing, language, education, trade and traditional herbal medicine.

By the 15th century, the city of Lhasa had risen to prominence following the founding of three large monasteries by and his disciples. The three monasteries are , and which were built as part of the puritanical Buddhist revival in Tibet. The scholarly achievements and political know-how of this Gelugpa Lineage eventually pushed Lhasa once more to centre stage.

The 5th , (1617–1682), unified Tibet and moved the centre of his administration to Lhasa in 1642 with the help of of the . With Güshi Khan as a largely uninvolved overlord, the 5th Dalai Lama and his intimates established a civil administration which is referred to by historians as the Lhasa state. The core leadership of this government is also referred to as the , and Lhasa thereafter became both the religious and political capital. In 1645, the reconstruction of the began on Red Hill. In 1648, the Potrang Karpo () of the Potala was completed, and the Potala was used as a by the Dalai Lama from that time onwards. The Potrang Marpo () was added between 1690 and 1694. The name Potala is derived from , the mythical abode of the Dalai Lama's divine prototype, the . The Jokhang Temple was also greatly expanded around this time. Although some wooden carvings and of the Jokhang Temple date to the 7th century, the oldest of Lhasa's extant buildings, such as within the Potala Palace, the Jokhang and some of the monasteries and properties in the Old Quarter date to this second flowering in Lhasa's history.

By the end of the 17th century, Lhasa's area formed a bustling market for foreign goods. The Jesuit missionary, reported in 1716 that the city had a cosmopolitan community of Mongol, Chinese, Muscovite, Armenian, Kashmiri, Nepalese and Northern Indian traders. Tibet was exporting musk, gold, medicinal plants, furs and yak tails to far-flung markets, in exchange for sugar, tea, saffron, Persian turquoise, European amber and Mediterranean coral. The army entered Lhasa in 1720, and the Qing government sent resident commissioners, called the , to Lhasa. In November 11 of 1750, the murder of the regent by the Ambans triggered a that left more than a hundred people killed, including the Ambans. After suppressing the rebels, Qing reorganized the Tibetan government and set up the governing council called in Lhasa in 1751.

Gateway to Lhasa (western gate) the Tibetans call this , Pargo Kaling pictured here at the time of the 1904 .

In 1904 led by entered Lhasa and forced remaining low-level Tibetan officials to sign the after the fleeing of Dalai Lama. The treaty was subsequently repudiated and was succeeded by . All Qing troops left Lhasa after the in 1912.

By the 20th century, Lhasa, long a beacon for both Tibetan and foreign Buddhists, had numerous ethnically and religiously distinct communities, among them , merchants, , and Chinese traders and officials. The Kashmiri Muslims (Khache) trace their arrival in Lhasa to the Muslim saint of , Khair ud-Din, contemporary with the 5th Dalai Lama. lived in a quarter to the south, and from to the north of the Barkhor market. Residents of the Lubu neighbourhood were descended from Chinese vegetable farmers who stayed over after accompanying an from in the mid-nineteenth century; some later intermarried with Tibetan women and spoke Tibetan as their first language. The city's merchants catered to all kinds of tastes, importing even Australian butter and British whisky. In the 1940s, according to :-

'There is nothing one cannot buy, or at least order. One even finds the specialties, and there is a keen demand for them. . .You can order, too, sewing machines, radio sets and gramophones and hunt up Bing Crosby records.'

After the establishment of Chinese People's Republic of China, "(...) the People's Liberation Army (PLA) the country in 1950. In centered on the , Lhasa, prompted a massive crackdown, during which the , fled into exile." Such markets and consumerism came to an abrupt end after the arrival of Chinese government troops and administrative cadres in 1950. Food rations and poorly stocked government stores replaced the old markets, until the 1990s when commerce in international wares once more returned to Lhasa, and arcades and malls with a cornucopia of goods sprang up.

Of the 22 parks (lingkas) which surrounded the city of Lhasa, most of them over half a mile in length, where the people of Lhasa were accustomed to picnic, only three survive today: the , Dalai Lama's Summer Palace, constructed by the ; a small part of the Shugtri Lingka, and the . Dormitory blocks, offices and army barracks are built over the rest.

Lhasa in 1938

The or Lhakhang temple was erected by the Amban in 1792 atop Mount Bamare 3 කිලෝමීටර (2 සැතපුම්s) south of the Potala to celebrate the defeat of an invading army.

The main gate to the city of Lhasa used to run through the large Pargo Kaling and contained holy relics of the Buddha Mindukpa.

Between 1987–1989 Lhasa experienced major demonstrations, led by monks and nuns, against the Chinese Government. After 's southern tour in 1992, Lhasa was mandated by the government to undergo economic liberalization. All government employees, their families and students were forbidden from practicing their religion, while monks and nuns were not allowed to enter government offices and the campus. Subsequent to the introduction of the economic development policies, the influx of migrants has dramatically altered the city's ethnic mix in Lhasa.

In 2000 the urbanised area covered 53 square කිලෝmetres (20 sq mi), with a population of around 170,000. Official statistics of the metropolitan area report that 70 percent are Tibetan, 34.3 are Han, and the remaining 2.7 Hui, though outside observers suspect that non-Tibetans account for some 50–70 percent. Among the Han immigrants, Lhasa is known as ‘Little Sichuan'.

Lhasa (normals 1986−2015, extremes 1951−2016) සඳහා කාලගුණ දත්ත
මාසය	ජන	පෙබ	මාර්	අප්‍රේ	මැයි	ජුනි	ජූලි	අගෝ	සැප්	ඔක්	නොවැ	දෙසැ	වර්ෂය
වාර්තාගත ඉහළම උෂ්ණත්වය°C (°F)	20.5 (68.9)	21.3 (70.3)	25.0 (77)	25.9 (78.6)	29.4 (84.9)	29.9 (85.8)	30.4 (86.7)	27.2 (81)	26.5 (79.7)	24.8 (76.6)	22.8 (73)	20.1 (68.2)	30.4 (86.7)
සාමාන්‍ය ඉහළම උෂ්ණත්වය °C (°F)	8.4 (47.1)	10.1 (50.2)	13.3 (55.9)	16.3 (61.3)	20.5 (68.9)	24.0 (75.2)	23.3 (73.9)	22.0 (71.6)	20.7 (69.3)	17.5 (63.5)	12.9 (55.2)	9.3 (48.7)	16.5 (61.7)
දෙෙනික සාමාන්‍ය උෂ්ණත්වය °C (°F)	−0.3 (31.5)	2.3 (36.1)	5.9 (42.6)	9.0 (48.2)	13.1 (55.6)	16.7 (62.1)	16.5 (61.7)	15.4 (59.7)	13.8 (56.8)	9.4 (48.9)	3.8 (38.8)	−0.1 (31.8)	8.8 (47.8)
සාමාන්‍ය අවම උෂ්ණත්වය °C (°F)	−7.4 (18.7)	−4.7 (23.5)	−0.8 (30.6)	2.7 (36.9)	6.8 (44.2)	10.9 (51.6)	11.4 (52.5)	10.7 (51.3)	8.9 (48)	3.1 (37.6)	−3 (27)	−6.8 (19.8)	2.7 (36.9)
වාර්තාගත අවම උෂ්ණත්වය °C (°F)	−16.5 (2.3)	−15.4 (4.3)	−13.6 (7.5)	−8.1 (17.4)	−2.7 (27.1)	2.0 (35.6)	4.5 (40.1)	3.3 (37.9)	0.3 (32.5)	−7.2 (19)	−11.2 (11.8)	−16.1 (3)	−16.5 (2.3)
වර්ෂාපතනය mm (inches)	.9 (0.035)	1.8 (0.071)	2.9 (0.114)	8.6 (0.339)	28.4 (1.118)	75.9 (2.988)	129.6 (5.102)	133.5 (5.256)	66.7 (2.626)	7.4 (0.291)	0.9 (0.035)	0.3 (0.012)	456.9 (17.987)
Avg. වැසි දින (≥ 0.1 mm)	.6	1.2	2.1	5.4	9.0	14.0	19.4	19.9	14.6	4.1	.6	.4	91.3
%	26	25	27	36	41	48	59	63	59	45	34	29	41
මාසික මධ්‍යයන සූර්යපැය ගණන	250.9	231.2	253.2	248.8	280.4	260.7	227.0	214.3	232.7	280.3	267.1	257.2	3,003.8
සූර්යපැය ප්‍රතිශතය	78	72	66	65	66	61	53	54	62	80	84	82	67
මූලාශ්‍ර: China Meteorological Administration, all-time extreme temperature

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