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2001.59.15.103.2 (Print)
2001.59.15.103.2 (Print)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1949
Chyongye Valley Region > Chyongye
2001.59.15.103.2
60 x 60 mm
Print silver
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
‘High Peaks, Pure Earth’, Hugh Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998 [view list of illustrations]
Notes on print- 'Ban So 'Pyon rgyas' (in pencil) is aritten on the reverse of image in Richardson's hand and 'Velox' in an oval is stamped in black. [KC 14/6/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [no] 60. ' Phyong-rgyas is in a valley south of the Brahmaputra at Rtse-thang, and west of the Yarlung valley. There is a dzong on the site of a palace of the early kings called 'Phying-ba stag-rtse; and also a monastery, Ri-bo-bde-chen, of the Dge-lugs-pa sect. East of the village in a small valley are the tombs of the kings of Tibet. See Mkhyen-brtse p.130 and G. Tucci. The Tombs of the Tibetan Kings. Rome 1950.' [KC 30/5/2006]
Research publication - High Peaks, Pure Earth , H. E. Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998, plate 2. "Tombs of the Tibetan kings at 'Phyong-rgyas looking north from the tomb of Ral-pa-can. The furthest mound is that of Srong-rtsan sgam-po, surmounted by a chapel; then those of Mang-srong, 'Dus-srong and Mes Ag-tshoms."
Research publication - Mk'yen Brtse's Guide to the Holy Places of Central Tibet, A. Ferrari, Roma, Is. M. E. O., 1958, plate 31. "Ban so dmar po, the tomb of Sron btsan sgam po."
Other Information - Location: Richardson wrote an article about the location and the historical significance of the early burial grounds in the Chyonggye valley near Yarlung in Central Afsiatic Journal , 8,2 (1963), pp. 73-92 reproduced in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, pp. 219-233. "'Phyong-rgyas is some sixty-five miles south-east of Lhasa, near the head of a tributary of the Yar-lung Chu which flows south into the Gtsang-po near Rtse-thang. ... Not far away to the north, at the foot of the hills which enclose the valley, is the village of 'Phyong-rgyas dominated by its rdzong ; and on a sheltered hillside above the village there is the Dge-lugs-pa monastery of Ri-bo bde-chen. Higher up the steep ridge on which the rdzong stands are the ruins of what is traditionally identified with Phying-ba'i Stag-rtse, the ancient stronghold of the Tibetan kings." (219-220)
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Burial mounds of the Tibetan kings at Chyongye"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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