The Potala Palace is a beautiful thing,
A building of grandeur to make your heart sing.
A palace and temple, for years it has stood,
This building composed of earth, stone and wood.
The walls look as if they are made of silk,
But their whiteness is due to the use of milk.
This building contains some 10,000 shrines,
And 200,000 statues that Buddhist practice defines.
Yet it’s most valuable scriptures and artworks divine,
We’re lost in the uprising of 1959.