China Produces First VCD About Downtown LamaseryThe first video compact disks (VCD) featuring the Yonghe Lamasery in downtown Beijing were put on sale Thursday, November 23.The VCD displays the history, architecture, religious activities and cultural relics and remains of the lamasery, the biggest Tibetan monastery outside the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. Covering a floor area of 66,000 square meters, the lamasery was built in 1649 as the residential palace for a prince of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In 1744, the palace was designated as a place of worship and renamed the Yonghe Lamasery. As a key cultural relic site under state protection, the lamasery has received over 20 million domestic and overseas tourists since it opened to public in 1981. |
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