{"id":5173,"date":"2021-08-26T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2021-09-02T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T08:55:22","slug":"jokhang-temple-lhasa-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/en\/jokhang-temple-lhasa-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jokhang Temple and the square in front of the temple. The Jokhang temple (or Zuglagkang) is located in the center of the old town of Lhasa in Tibet. Tibetans consider the Zuglagkang as the most sacred and most important temple of Tibet.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5179 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-temple.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-temple.jpg 750w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-temple-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-temple-600x405.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Jokhang temple was founded during the reign of King Songtsen Gampo and the oldest part of the temple was built in 652, which makes it the oldest Buddhist temple of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5174 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-square.jpg 750w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-square-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/jokhang-square-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since the year 2000 the Jokhang is listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jokhang Temple and the square in front of the temple. The Jokhang temple (or Zuglagkang) is located in the center of the old town of Lhasa in Tibet. Tibetans consider the Zuglagkang as the most sacred and most important temple of Tibet. The Jokhang temple was founded during the reign of King Songtsen Gampo and the oldest part of the temple was built in 652, which makes it the oldest Buddhist temple of the country. &nbsp; Since the year 2000 the Jokhang is listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,49,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lhasa","category-tibet","category-travel-adventure-asia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet - Happy Nomads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Jokhang Temple and the square in front of the temple. 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