Deep History of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas: Highlands, Valleys, and Connected Worlds
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Jokhang and early Lhasa religious and diplomatic contexts

Jokhang (Jo khang)

A temple, its changing fabric, and a nearby treaty inscription reveal different forms of royal, religious, and diplomatic evidence. Lhasa was connected to artisans and institutions beyond its valley.

Temple, urban, and diplomatic-inscription context Seventh-fifteenth centuries CE; later rebuilding discussed separately Standing architecture, phased renovation history, sourced institutional accounts, and a contemporary bilingual treaty inscription Jokhang, Lhasa (public sacred-site orientation point); approximate orientation only, never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, religious, cultural, or sovereignty boundary.
Aperçu

Paysages de hauts plateaux, communautés e institutions cambiantes

Plateaux, vallées et paysages régionaux connectés

Lhasa's valley connected diplomatic and artistic networks. The temple point is not a territorial or religious boundary.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Royal patronage, religious institutions, artisans, and later regional rulers shaped the site. Their roles changed rather than forming an unbroken modern state.

Transformation ultérieure, patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

The shrine remains living religious heritage. Its seventh-century traditions, medieval expansions, and later conservation must be kept chronologically distinct.

Early context a seventh-century temple tradition

Accounts differ over founders and participants.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1] [S2]
Diplomacy treaty composed 821-822 and pillar erected 823

The academic edition separates composition from erection.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S3]
Architecture multiple building and renovation phases

A religious foundation date does not date every surviving wall.

Source review: 2026-10-19 [S1] [S2]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Early temple foundation context

    Institutional sources connect the site with royal patronage, while accounts vary.

  2. Treaty and inscription

    Diplomatic agreements were inscribed near the temple.

  3. Medieval extension

    The institutional history attributes the front extension to Pakmodrupa Drakpa Gyeltsen.

  4. Heritage ensemble extended

    Jokhang joined the existing World Heritage property; the ensemble includes monuments from very different dates.

Culture et langue

Foyers, travail, langue, croyances et éléments probants matériels

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • Old Tibetan and Chinese in the treaty inscription
  • Other resident languages not comprehensively recorded

Famille linguistique: Epigraphic languages describe particular documents, not every resident

Sacred origin traditions are attributed rather than treated as excavation results.

The treaty pillar preserves an institutional diplomatic voice, not a neutral population survey.

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Sources utilisées pour cette page

Prefer accountable excavation teams, heritage authorities, academic inscription editions, institutional collections, and community-linked conservation projects. Registered sources are HTTPS and exclude Wikipedia. Royal, religious, colonial, and modern national narratives require attribution.

  1. C1

    Archaeology of the Tibetan Plateau

    Anke Hein, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer · Academic archaeological synthesis · 2018

  2. C2

    Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

    Xia et al., Nature · Primary archaeological and proteomic study · 2024

  3. C3
  4. C4

    Comment on Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene

    Zhang et al., Science · Published technical challenge to permanent-occupation interpretation · 2017

  5. C5
  6. C6

    Old Tibetan Documents Online

    Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies · Academic manuscript and inscription editions · Texts of the seventh-twelfth centuries; current critical corpus

  7. C7

    Early West Tibetan Buddhist Monuments

    Austrian Academy of Sciences · Textual and architectural research project · Archived research project

  8. C8

    Text, Art and Performance in Bon Ritual

    University of Vienna, CIRDIS · Community-linked ritual and art research · 2012-2016 project

  9. C9

    Preserving earthen architecture: Lessons learned from two case studies

    Fuchs, Milchin and Krist, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · Primary conservation research · 2024

  10. C10

    The Sinja Valley Excavation in 2000 A.D.

    Evans and Gibson with Acharya, Harward and Kunwar, Ancient Nepal 153; University of Cambridge archive · Primary Nepalese-Cambridge excavation report · 2003

  11. S1

    Jokhang

    The Treasury of Lives · Historical institution reference · Current sourced institutional entry

  12. S2

    Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Heritage record; Jokhang context, later Potala distinguished · 1994; extensions 2000 and 2001

  13. S3

    The Sino-Tibetan treaty inscription of 821-822

    Old Tibetan Documents Online, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa · Contemporary diplomatic inscription in academic edition · Composed 821-822; erected 823; modern critical catalogue

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Revisión editorial: 19 octobre 2026