Over 320-year-old blueprints of the Potala Palace’s Red Palace building were recently discovered.
The Potala Palace in Lhasa is an icon of Tibetan Buddhism.
Originally built in the seventh century, the Unesco World Heritage site is home to nearly 40,000 volumes of antique texts, including rare patra-leaf manuscripts, works from the Tibetan Buddhist canon, writings of senior monks and medical books.
The Chinese government has launched a 10-year conservation project to preserve and digitise the scriptures, and the digitised collections made publicly accessible in the future.
