Pargo Kaling

Pargo Kaling was a massive 15th-century Kumbum stupa in Lhasa, Tibet, containing 108 chapels. Its name is also linked to one of the traditional gateways of the old city.

Kumbum means 'a hundred thousand images,' referring to a tiered stupa packed with chapels and sacred imagery. The most famous surviving example is the Kumbum of Gyantse at Palcho Monastery, completed in the 1430s.

It stood at the western edge of Lhasa, near the approach route associated with the Potala Palace quarter of the city. The location made it part of the ritual circuit of entering and circling old Lhasa.

The stupa was largely destroyed during the upheavals of the 20th century, reportedly amid the turmoil that swept Tibet's monasteries and monuments in the mid-1900s. Only remnants of the structure are known to survive.