Ngari Rinpoche on a swing in the Dekyi Lingka garden

Ngari Rinpoche on a swing in the Dekyi Lingka garden

2001.59.7.55.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1948 - 50

Named Person

Ngari Rinpoche

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.59.7.55.1

Image Dimensions

43 x 54 mm

Ngari Rinpoche Tenzin Choegyal, (b.1946). He is about two years old, has a shaven head and is wearing a robe of light-coloured silk and felt boots. He is being pushed on a swing by a woman in a striped apron in the garden of Dekyi Lingka. There are girls and a nobleman (with his back to the camera) looking on.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '7' 'PEOPLE'

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 55. 'swing' [Swing Mary La with children].

Other Information - Biography: Ngari Rinpoche is the youngest brother of the Dalai Lama born in Lhasa in 1946. He was recognised as Ngari Rinpoche, an incarnation of the spiritual leader of several monasteries in Ngari, a large region of western Tibet. [KC 26/6/2006]

Other Information - Biography: Jetsun Pema, the Dalai Lama's sister recalls her little brother in Tibet My Story, London: Element , 1998 pp.41-2, "At the same time, another reincarnation was living in our house: my youngest brother, Tenzin Choegal, a rinpoche or spiritual master to whom we also paid great respect. He, however, shared our everday life and was sometimes very mischievous. At meal times, he did not think twice about getting down from his chair and joining us to be naughty, much to his tutor's distress. ... Everyone let him do exactly what he wanted, because of his position as a rinpoche." [KC 26/6/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Ngari Rinpoche on a swing in the Dekyi Lingka garden" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.55.1.html>.

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