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Show The St. Peter's of Asia. Tho most Imposing and. awo Inspiring Inspir-ing cdiflco in Lhassa is the great pal-aoo pal-aoo and nbodo of tho Dalai Lima. This is a veritable acropolis, rising-four rising-four hundred feet abovo tho roof tops. This palatial monument to Buddhism' Is composed of a 'series of ""squaro structures and temples, grouped ono abovo the other. A central building of red sandstono, thirteen stories in height, is tho ofllcial resldenco of tho lncarnato boy ruler of Tibet, said to bo about twenty years old. This la styled tho St. Peter's of Asia, surpassing surpass-ing oven the Vatican In spaciousness, containing moro than threo thousand rooms, Innumerable temples with domes of gold. Tho other edifices contain con-tain tho quarters of tho high dig-nttarlos, dig-nttarlos, oillclals, priests nnd religious personagos. During the great colobra-tlons colobra-tlons and fetes twenty-flvo thousand can bo accommodated within tho In-closure |