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Taktsé Castle ranks #7,938 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #71 of the 103 mapped in China. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
Taktsé Castle (Tibetan: སྟག་རྩེ་, Wylie: Stag-rtse) was a castle located in the Chingwa (Wylie: Phying-ba) district of Chonggyä (Wylie: Phyongs-rgyas) in central Tibet. According to legend, it was home to the kings of Tibet before Songtsen Gampo (604–650) moved his capital to Lhasa. It later became the birthplace of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682), whose aristocratic family had made their home there. Its ruins remain.
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