Lhasa de Sela died after a two year battle with cancer at the age of 37.
By 2012, says a senior official in Lhasa, it will be extended to Shigatse.
The miners' camp, 70km (45 miles) east of Lhasa, was destroyed by thousands of tonnes of rock.
In the years before her career was cut short, the Mexican-American singer Lhasa de Sela sold a million records.
Emperor Qianlong sent a golden urn to Lhasa, in which the names of candidates proposed for reincarnation would be placed.
Downtown Lhasa was crowded with people celebrating a Buddhist festival, it added.
Lhasa sold more than a million copies and she toured the world.
Lhasa grew up reading fairy tales and incorporating them into her songs.
What a relief not to be on the road again 100 days a year--or to have to hire someone to look after her Lhasa apso.
In a 1998 interview, Lhasa told NPR's Jacki Lyden that the family lived in a series of school buses and trailers filled with music and books.
The 1, 142 km (710 mile) Golmud-Lhasa line certainly sounds impressive.
Floral displays bedeck parts of Lhasa.
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Directing our eyes up the slope, we see the monastery complex's 12-story tumble of geometry come into focus: the Little Potala, as it is called, after the original in Lhasa, all stepped roofs and cantilevered walls, scaling the crag like a fairy-tale medieval fortress.
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