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Historical Sites (page 3)

The first Castle-Yungbulakang
Yungbulakang is the palace for the 1st Tubo King Niechi in the Yalong River Valley.It is also called "the Mosher and Song Holy Hall". Yungbulakang is standing on the top of a hill on the east bank of the Yalung River in the southeast of Naidong county.The castle can be divided into front and vack 2 parts.the front part is a 3-storey building,while the back part is a castle like tall building.Enshrined in the shrine are the statues of Thiesung Sangjie Buddha,King Niechi,King Srontsan Gampo and the Tobu Kings after them. The legend goes that the "mysterious object" was on the foof of the castle, so buddhists regard hereas the holyland.

The Samye Monastery
The Samye Monastery is at the foot of Mot.Haibusi on the north bank of the Yaluzangbu riber in Jialang county.Being the 1st monatery,it was built in 761.The 5th TobuKing Chisong Duosan sent envoys to Kashmir and India to invite famous lamas to teach Buddhism in Tibet. The monastery had been combined the Chinese ,tibetan and Indian styles ,in the centre of the Monastery is a big square 3-store hall with a floor space of over 8,900 squaremeters.the first floor Is of tibetan style,the 2nd Chinese and 3rd Indian.To the direction of the 4 corners of the hall,4 towers were bulilt respectively in red,white,green and black colors. The Sangsu Monastery is a typical buddhist building ,it deserves its place in the history of architecture.

The Changzhu Monastery
The Changzhu Monastery on the east bank of the Yalong River in the district of Shannan.there is a legend behind the Monastery.It is said that once upon a time,the site of the Monastery was an extremely deep lake.In the lake there is a five-head dragon.After Srontsan Gampo got the control of Tibet,he wanted to drain the lake and build a castle there.So he invited two Masters to lure a big bird to attack the dragon.the two Mastes first of all immitated the sound of the bird and lured the dragon out, then they immitated the sound of the dragon to lure the bird out. So the dragon and the bird started a fight.The bird at last chopped off two of the drogons's heads withits wings.Seven days later , the lake disappeared.Some pearls were buried as the cornerstone for the monastery.That is how the Monastery gotits name.