Yungbulakang Palace
| Yumbulagang Palace | |
|---|---|
ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ | |
The partially restored Yumbulagang | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Bön, Mahayana Buddhist, Tibetan Buddhist |
| Location | |
| Location | Lhoka, Ü-Tsang, Tibet |
| Geographic coordinates | 29°08′33″N 91°48′10″E / 29.14258°N 91.80270°E |
| Architecture | |
| Founder | Nyatri Tsenpo |
| Date established | c. 127 BCE |
| Demolished | 1966 |
Yumbulagang (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་སྒང།, Wylie: yum bu bla sgang; Chinese: 雍布拉康) or Yumbu Lakhar (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་མཁར།, Wylie: yum bu bla mkhar, is the original palace of the Yarlung Dynasty kings of Tibet. As the first building in Tibet, it was the palace of the first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo who reigned during 127 BCE.
Yumbulagang stands on a hill at a bend along the Yarlung Tsampo River, on the eastern bank of the Yarlung Valley of southeast Lhokha, about 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Lhasa and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Tsetang. The palace and its shrine were demolished during the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, and the palace has been partially rebuilt.