The Jokhang, also known as the “Great Temple,” is a center of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practice and pilgrimage located in the center of the capital city of Lhasa. The Temple was commissioned by Tibet's first king, Songtsen Gampo, in the early 7th century. It is said to have be the pinnacle of Tibetan Buddhism's geomantic geography, established to quell the supine ogress that embodies Tibet's physical landscape.