First Tibet Trip to Holy Jokhang Temple

The Jokhang Temple is devoted to the statue of Jowo Shakyamuni. This is the holiest temple in all of Tibet Tourismin china. Pilgrims from all over head to this temple to capture a glance of the Jowo Buddha, a statue that is said to have been endowed by the Buddha himself. Some pilgrims even flat all the way to the temple, even if it requires them decades to journey from their house town to Lhasa. Others journey to the temple everyday and flat at the front side of it, or circumambulate it while saying wishes.

The temple's main area keeps is most valuable item for Tibet Travel, a seated statue of Sakyamuni while he was still only a 12 year-old youngsters. This was taken to Tibet by Queen Wencheng from her house in Chang'an in 700 A.D. It is a gilded statue decorated with many jewelry, in an intricate establishing. The idol is very essential to Buddhists who have knelt in praise before it for hundreds of decades. Outside the temple an old and withered willow shrub has live through hundreds of decades and is said to be placed by Queen Wencheng herself. Also there is a 3 gauge (10 ft.) great principal, a agreement rock documenting the partnership between the Master of Tibet and the Emperor of Chinese suppliers in 823 A.D.

What visitors must see in the temple is the life-size statue of Shakyamuni. The statue was made after the Shakyamuni himself when he was in existence on China tour packages. There are only three sculptures of the type on the globe. As Shakyamuni did not agree with the concept of individual praise and did not allow to statue the statue according to his picture. Only three sculptures developed by Shakyamuni himself were shaped during his life-time. The first is similarity of Shakymuni at the age of eight. The second in Jokhang Temple at the age of 12 and the third statue as an mature.