Prayer wheels on the Lingkhor, Lhasa

Prayer wheels on the Lingkhor, Lhasa

2001.35.135.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 8th 1936?

Region

Lhasa > Lingkhor

Accession number

2001.35.135.1

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Prayer wheels along the ritual circumabulatory path around Lhasa, the Lingkhor.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.27.3

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 2-135; 52; 'Prayer barrels'. [KC 30/07/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Caption for this image in Nepean's album (see Same Image As) - 'Prayer wheels.' [MS 30/07/2006]

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Other Information - Related Images: See 1998.131.348 in the Frederick Spencer Chapman collection at the PRM for a view of these prayer wheels from another angle taken on the same day [MS 30/07/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: The dating of this image has been suggested by relating it to 1998.131.348 [see

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images]. Images in Chapman's collection prefixed with 'C.4' comprise a group of negatives containing images of soldiers, turning prayer wheel, horns and rock paintings, paintings, Dr Morgan and mission hospital, beggar with skull and drum, monks outside Sera, meat seller, water tanks. They all seem to have been taken on September 8th 1936 [MS 21/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Prayer wheels on the Lingkhor, Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.135.1.html>.

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