Barkar Street, also called Bajiao Street, belongs to Lhasa, Tibet. It is a thousand-year-old street that can represent the folk customs of Tibet, because of its simple cultural heritage, long history and tradition, shortlisted as one of the “top ten streets of national history and culture”.
Barkar Street in a narrow sense can be understood as a ring around the Jokhang Temple, the broader sense of the Barkar Street, refers to the Jokhang Temple and built around a piece of residential land, is a residential area consisting of a number of alleys in all directions. Barkar Street prosperous place for next to the Jokhang Temple of the circular bypass, with the deepening of the religious status of the Jokhang Temple, Tibetan Buddhism that the Jokhang Temple as the center point of clockwise around the behavior of the “bypass”, said to be enshrined in the Jokhang Temple within the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha's pilgrimage, the Barkar Street has become one of the three major bypasses in Lhasa. This street set Tibetan souvenir sales, sightseeing, representative folk customs, Tibetan characteristics of ancient architecture, etc. as one, is a good place to go to Lhasa travel.
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Address. Chengguan District, Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
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