Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

August 28th 1921

Region

Rongchu Valley Region > Reting > Hermitage

Accession number

1998.286.232.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Hermitage or ritrö between Reting and Phondo where the Hutuktu of Reting Monastery retired for religious meditation

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

L.228

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.219

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XLIV. [Subject of Chapter] Reting [Subject of Illustration] Q219 (j) Hermitage (Ri-trö) above Re-ting. Here the High Priest (Hutuktu) retires for religious meditation (tsam) from time to time. Here also the Dalai Lama spent some time when he visited Re-ting. [Remarks] L 228."

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: At the end of August Sir Charles Bell and Robert Kennedy went on a tour of the country north of Lhasa to Reting monastery. This photograph was taken on this trip. Bell states in his Diary for August 28th that he travelled to Phondo, 7 miles from Talung and took a photograph of a hermitage on a hill whilst en route [Diary Vol. XII, pp. 41-46] [MS 17/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Hermitage between Reting and Phondo" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.232.2.html>.

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Hermitage between Reting and Phondo