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Palkhor Monastery is located south of Lhasa and east of Shigatse. It is a Tibetan monastery, yet a very unique one. The monastery is home to monks from three different orders of Tibetan Buddhism and is the only monastery known to do this. Thus, the designs and items within the monastery are very unique. The main assembly hall of the monastery, Tshomchen, is three stories tall and was built between the fourteenth and fifteenth century. On the first floor there is a bronze statue of Maitreya that is eight meters tall on display. The second floor there is special chapels that are famous throughout Tibet. The third floor there is a collection of 15 mandala murals that are three meters in diameter. Palkhor Monastery also houses a stupa, built in 1412, that consists of hundreds of chapels that have thousands of iconic images inside. The stupa has a total of 108 gates and 77 chapels.

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