Renovation Costs Soar for Tibetan Palace
Associated Press
BEIJING —
The discovery of more damage to a 1,300-year-old Tibetan palace has added an extra year and $3.6 million to a renovation project, officials said Friday.
The white-and-maroon Potala Palace has 100,000 rooms stacked 13 stories high atop a hill overlooking Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. It was built in the 7th Century.
Work on the palace, once home to Tibet’s god-king, Dalai Lama, began in October, 1989, and was scheduled for completion next year at a cost of $7.2 million.
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