Chagpori

This medical college, which incorporated a recently restored temple made by Thang Tong Gyalpo, was supplied with revenue generating lands and with a constant stream of students by a "monk tax".

[3] Aufschnaiter wrote, "Since 23 December 1947 I have been staying in Lhasa for some months to make a town plan, and have now been appointed to the government service by a decree of the Regent.

During the March 1959 Lhasa uprising, the medical school established by the 13th Dalai Lama named Men-Tsee-Khang and a temple housing statutes of coral (Tsepame), mother-of-pearl (of Tujechempo) and turquoise (of Drolma) were demolished by the People's Liberation Army artillery as the Tibetans had placed a few cannons up there.

At this spur connecting these two hills was the famous chorten Pargo Kaling, a spired reliquary with an arch that served as the town's western gate and was demolished in 1967 and rebuilt in 1995.

Chagpori is the soul-mountain (bla-ri) of Vajrapani, Pongwari that of Manjushri, and Marpori, the hill on which the Potala stands, represents Chenresig or Avalokiteshvara.

Chagpori seen from Potala (2013). The large antennae currently on top, replaced the destroyed Tibetan Medical and Astrological College called Men-Tsee-Khang
1938 photo of Men-Tsee-Khang on top of Chagpori, taken from the Western Gate or Pargo Kaling . It was completely destroyed during the Lhasa uprising .
Painted rock carvings at the base of Chagpori, 1993
Western Gate ( Pargo Kaling ) to Lhasa located between Chagpori (right) and Potala (left). Photo by the British expedition to Tibet in 1904.
Flags over road between Potala and Chagpori. 1993.
The Chakpori in the background as photographed from the Potala's roof
Below Chagpori 1993- note the hill has no Men-Tsee-Khang building on top (a medical college founded by the 13th Dalai Lama ) and the radio antennae has not yet been built