Ce qui fait dire au poète Jean Dif, dans son « Carnet de route d'un voyage au Tibet (septembre-octobre 2004) » : « Heureusement, les architectes de la ville nouvelle n’ont pas édifié de gratte-ciel auprès du Potala. Il n'y a pas encore de tour de la Défense à Lhassa ! »
(en) Woeser, Decline of Potala Palace, China Rights Forum (journal de Human Rights in China, No 4, 2007) ; article également publié sur le site Tibet Write ([1]), le 26 décembre 2007) « In the summer of 1994, on the outer white wall of the Potala Palace dotted by many windows with red frames and black surrounds, two giant precious thangkas were displayed. This great traditional ritual had not been held for over forty years, and it's never been celebrated since then. ».
(en) Amy Heller, in Anne-Marie Blondeau, Katia Buffetrille, Wei Jing, Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions, University of California Press, 2008, 364 p., p. 221 : « the invaluable library and artistic treasures accumulated over the centuries in the Potala have been preserved. »
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(en) Woeser, Decline of Potala Palace, China Rights Forum (journal de Human Rights in China, No 4, 2007) ; article également publié sur le site Tibet Write ([1]), le 26 décembre 2007) « In the summer of 1994, on the outer white wall of the Potala Palace dotted by many windows with red frames and black surrounds, two giant precious thangkas were displayed. This great traditional ritual had not been held for over forty years, and it's never been celebrated since then. ».
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(en) Samten C. Karmay, The Great Fifth, 2005, IIAS Newsletter, #39, December 2005, 2 p., p. 1.
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Brice Pedroletti La rénovation du centre de Lhassa suscite des inquiétudesLe Monde, 26 juin 2013 « Woeser rappelle le précédent du village de Shol, situé au pied du Potala : il fut rasé et déplacé deux ans après l'inscription du Potala sur la liste de l'Unesco. Et le Potala fut "fatalement défiguré par l'une de ces répliques de places identiques à travers la Chine, dont le but est de montrer et de projeter le pouvoir et l'autorité suprême". »
(en) Kate Saunders, More demolition of Traditional Tibetan Housing Planned in Lhasa, The Guardian, 30 août 2003 : « The authorities in Lhasa are planning to demolish the larger part of the remaining village of Shol at the foot of the Potala Palace, former winter residence of the Dalai Lama, to make way for a square and a museum. [...] The area known as 'outer Shol', representing the buildings outside the Shol fortification walls, was demolished to create the Potala Square in 1994-95. »
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(en) André Alexander, Different Approaches to Conservation in Tibet, IATS Standing Committee for the Study of the Tibetan Architectural Heritage and Mural Art, International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2006 : « In summer 1995, over 140 Tibetan families resideing in Shoel were evicted from their homes and resettled to the north of Lhassa. Over 40 historic buildings in outer and inner Shol were demolished. Even though they formed part of the historic ensemble "Potala and Shoel," and many dated to the 17th century, they were not deemed important at the time, not "part of the monument". »
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(en) Attractions of the Potala, site TibetTravel.info : « In the Potala Palace, there are eight stupa-tomb chapels (where the relics of the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and the Thirteenth Dalai Lamas are preserved. »
(en) Rapport périodique 2003 (cycle 1) résumé section II, World Heritage Committee : « The protective zone and buffer zone of the Potala Palace was clearly established in 1997 when the people's government of the Tibet Autonomous Region issued the Rules Concerning the Management of the Potala Palace. »
