China · 7th century
Yumbulagang (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་སྒང།, Wylie: yum bu bla sgang) or Yumbu Lakhar (Tibetan: ཡུམ་བུ་བླ་མཁར།, Wylie: yum bu bla mkhar) is the original palace of the Yarlung kings of Tibet. In the Tibetan mythology, it was the first building in Tibet, and was the palace of the legendary first Tibetan king, Nyatri Tsenpo, who is said to have reigned from 127 BCE.
Yumbulagang stands on a hill at a bend along the Yarlung Tsampo River, on the eastern bank of the Yarlung Valley of southeast Lhokha, about 192 kilometres (119 mi) southeast of Lhasa and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of Tsetang. The palace and its shrine were demolished during the 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution, and the palace has been partially rebuilt.
Text adapted from “Yungbulakang Palace” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yungbulakang Palace ranks #2,013 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #40 of the 107 mapped in China. Founded c. 650, it is older than 96% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 39 atlas entries founded in the 7th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,080 times in the last 60 days, more than 70% of the atlas. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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