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    Finding the Silver Lining

    Mar 26, 2020 4 minutes
    By Zhao Wei
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    ‘Dear friends, welcome to Lhasa, I’m your tour guide today,” said a blithe Tsering Drolkar, bringing an aura of faraway magic with her green chuba, the long sleeveless Tibetan tunic worn by women over a blouse. The place where she was standing was even more so—the foot of the Potala Palace, one of the dream destinations of tourists all over the world and a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.

    The unique thing about the tour guide’s introduction to the 1,300-year-old palace first built by Tibetan King Songtsa Gambo

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