Potala Palace is the name of a museum in Xizang Autonomous Region of China, previously a palace of the Tibetan sovereign the Dalai Lama, in the dzong-style, in Lhasa capital of Xizang or Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649. In 1959 the Tibetan government ceased inhabitation when the buildings ownership transferred to the People'…Potala Palace is the name of a museum in Xizang Autonomous Region of China, previously a palace of the Tibetan sovereign the Dalai Lama, in the dzong-style, in Lhasa capital of Xizang or Tibet. It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649. In 1959 the Tibetan government ceased inhabitation when the buildings ownership transferred to the People's Republic of China.