English: Looking over the top of the Depung Monastery. It is located in the hillside of Gambo Utse Mountain 5 kilometers northwest to Lhasa City. The monastery was founded in 1416 by a disciple of Tsong Khapa under the patronage of a noble family and later enlarged by the Fifth Dalai Lama. The second, third and forth Dalai Lama once stayed here. In the ninth year (1530) of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Ganden Palace (Ganden Potrang) was built as the living room of Dalai Lama, who took charge of the power over major religious and political issues in Tibet.