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Ramoche Monastery:

Ramoche Temple or monastery is one of the most important and considered
sister temple of the Jokhang. Ramoche Monastery is situated in northwest part of
Lhasa covering a sum area of more than 4,000 square meters. This monastery is
build around the same time of Jokhang temple history says that it was built to
house the Jowo Sakyamuni image brought to Tibet by Princess Wencheng during
the Tang Dynasty. By the mid-15th century the temple had become Lhasa’s Upper
Tantric College.
Residing within the Ramoche Monastery is the life-sized statue of the 8-year-old
Sakyamuni Carried into Tibet by the Nepalese Chizun Princess, the figure is
regarded as the greatest saint in Ramoche Monastery.