Eddie revisits the Potala in Lhasa—first as a lost Cornell student in 2012, then as an entrepreneur in 2023—with winter travel logic, Jokhang kora notes, and straight talk on Tibet permits.

From Chan tea culture at Jingshan and Lingyin grottoes to Ganden Sumtseling in Shangri-La and the roof-of-the-world arc toward Lhasa — a temples primer aligned with DeepDive Hangzhou, Beijing, and plateau field weeks.