2001.59.2.45.1 (Film negative)
2001.59.2.45.1 (Film negative)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1937 or 1948 or 1950
Lhasa Area > Dra Yerpa
2001.59.2.45.1
55 X 57 mm
Negative film nitrate
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh E. Richardson
‘High Peaks, Pure Earth’, Hugh Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998 [view list of illustrations]
Manual Catalogues - Notes on front of negative album in Richardson's hand in white: '2' 'Ramagang, 'Ushang, Tshurphu rgyal, Misc pillars'. On the reverse of negative album written in blue ink on white labels in Richardson's hand: 'Hu zhang, Pa blon chen, Pha bong ka, Nyenchen thang lho, Rva sgreng, Khro 'brug, etc. etc.' [KC 10/3/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio. 44 'Brag Yerpa'.
Manual Catalogues - Richardson Hand List: Album no. 2, [no.] 27. 'Yer-pa see also Album B. 93-97'. [KC 22/3/2006]
Research publication - H. E. Richardson, High Peaks, Pure Earth' , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, plate 39. "Brag Yer-pa." [KC 09/11/2006]
Other Information - Location: Richardson describes the site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, "Four miles east of Lhasa itself stands the little monastery of Ri-skya , and beyond it the foundation of Brag Yer-pa (1937, 1948, 1950), lying at the head of a unexpectantly green an pleasant valley about twelve miles norht-east of Lhasa. The sheer cliff face is honeycombed with caves to which monks from the city came for meditation. It is a place of ancient sanctity and has been inhabited reputedly since the time of Srong-brtsan Sgam-po, whose cave with his image and those of his wives is high up on the cliff, reached only by a ladder. ... Near the foot of the hill in a small stone building was a large bronze bell in the T'ang style bearing in early north Indian characters the Buddhist formula ye dharma hetuprabhava etc and another sloka in Tibetan." (pp 305-6) [KC 20/10/2006]
Other Information - Dates: Hugh Richardson's interest in photographing inscription pillars and historical sites seems to have been particularly accute during the period 1948-50, although he states in A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions [Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1985, p.72] that he visited this site two miles out of Lhasa on many occasions [MS 16/12/2005]
Other Information - Related Image: 2001.59.2.47.1
Other Information - The site is originally said to be cave where the Tibetan Emperor Songtsen Gampo (srong brtsan sgam po) and his two queens mediated in the 7th Cenutry. Later the during the second phase of spread of Buddhism Drak Yerpa came to be associated closely with Atisha (982-1054 AD) and the development of Khadampa school of Tibetan Buddhism. [TS 15/3/2005]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Hermitages, shrines and temples of Dra Yerpa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.2.45.1.html>.
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