Barkhor Street Market

Barkhor refers to Lhasa's pilgrimage circuit, a quadrangle of streets that surrounds the Jokhang Temple. Tibetans walked or crawled in full-body length clockwise round the Jokhang Temple to pay their respects to Sakyamuni, which is how the Barkhor Street became established as the Sacred Way in Tibet.

For the continuous stream of visitors, Barkhor also is a market. Almost all houses facing the streets have become shops. Besides these shops, there are more than one thousand stalls along the street and down the alleyways which sells butter, barley wine, meat, Tibetan shoes, Tibetan knives, articles for religious use like Thangka, prayer wheels, prayer flags etc. Goods imported from India, Nepal and many other countries can also be found here.