Bakuo street is not only the extension path which goes on a pilgrimage, also is the Tibetan national minority handicraft commercial collection and distribution center, Lhasa's real life portrayal. Bakuo street is located the Lhasa old city, revolves a Jokhang Monastery's ring-like street, is the Lhasa most ancient street.Bakuo street also once was called the octagonal street, “eight galleries” were the Tibetan, “the star anise” was transliterates not accurately to the Bakuo street this Tibetan name.
Speaking of the economy, Bakuo street is between a commercial store front and a row of platoon piles up with the Tibetan national minority handicraft, the souvenir shelf.From the Tibetan national minority culture significance, this is a turning of prayer wheel ring-like road, every day in this turning of prayer wheel, likely some kind of duty has not completed is same! But stands in tourist's angle looked that, this is together the mysterious place, not only may buy each kind of novel souvenir in here, but also may see each kind of different skin color, the different race person chops the price in here by each way and the Tibetan national minority merchant, meanwhile may experience the model the Tibetan national minority to live!

Bakuo street's origin: 7 century Tibetan King Songzanganbu leads when the clan and tribe moves Lhasa plain, here is a stretch of swampy ground.They pitch camp in the fertile soup bund, and has constructed Jokhang Monastery.This beautiful palace has brought in the innumerable pilgrimages, treads this strip to surround Jokhang Monastery's Bakuo street gradually.At first this is only an ordinary road, afterwards became pilgrimage's extension path.“The gallery” the transliteration is “the circle”, expands for the turning of prayer wheel.Eight galleries are the middle extension paths, is opposite in it, inside has “the pouch gallery”, is in a Jokhang Monastery's turning of prayer wheel returns to the gallery; Outside has Lin Kuo (Italy to refer to world periphery), is the encompassment transfers including Potala Palace's Lhasa old castle town.From to is early late always has the innumerable turning of prayer wheel to walk in a hurry on these 3 roads, accumulates their merit with the footsteps.

Stands goes against in Potala Palace to Lhasa entire city bird's eye view, the entire Lhasa urban district everywhere is one complements piece by piece in the greenery the new style building, only area the octagonal street the sutra streamer flutters, the mulberry smoke winds around ......

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