Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border

Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border

BMR.6.8.216 (Transparency colour)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1938

Region

Melong Tradun

Accession number

BMR.6.8.216

Image Dimensions

60 x 90 mm

Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Transparency Colour

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Other Information

Technical Information - The cameras used to take this collection of colour slides (Dufay colour) were a Zeiss Super Ikonta and a Reflex Korelle. [KC 09/10/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Typewritten handlist entitled 'Hugh Richardson Collection, The British Museum. Photographs taken between 1936-50. Cameras: Zeiss Super Ikonta, Reflex Korelle. 300 colour slides (Dufay colour); copies made Jan. 1995.
[no.] 216. Melong Tradun Monastery.' [KC 11/10/2006]

Other Information - Location: Richardson mentions this monastery in High Peaks, Pure Earth, 1998 , London: Serindia Publications, p. 328. "In a wild, rocky and inhospitable region at the south-east end of the Ram-mtsho Lake stands the isolated little monastery of Me-long Brag-bdun (1938)." [KC 20/10/2006]  

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.6.8.216.html>.

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