Lhasa, hides the meaning is "Holy Land", "the Buddha place". The 7th century, after Songzanganbu unified Tibet, from elegant moved the capital prosperously patrols suo (i.e. Lhasa), has established Turfan dynasty. Hands down when Princess Wen Cheng comes into Tibet, here is a piece of weed sand beach, latter has constructed Jokhang Monastery and the small illustrious temple in this. Because comes the human who bows to Buddha to increase, successively has then built up many inns and the resident house regarding Jokhang Monastery, has formed take Jokhang Monastery as the central old city embryonic form.