Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

March 19th 1927

Region

Gyantse > Palkhor Chode

Accession number

BMH.C.2.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 105

A man at Palkhor Chode monastery, Gyantse, just below the Kumbum, spinning a small prayer wheel while walking along the path around the monastery adjacent to the larger prayer wheels behind the wooden fence. A group of men and women can be seen behind spinning the large wheels. Shadow of the photographer's head wearing a trilby hat in the lower right of the image

Further Information

Activity

Ritual Activity

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet C']: 'Ditto [Turning Prayer Wheels' [MS 28/04/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] Ditto for No. 2 ['Turning the prayer wheels. There are a series of prayer wheels outside the mani walls outside the Palkhor chorten. He is a visiting person, he has homespun hat on; turning the prayer wheels as he goes along, turning his own at the same time'] [MS 01/07/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing March 20th 1927, Gyantse, pages 6-9 [MS 01/07/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "People turning prayer wheels, Palkhor Chode" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.C.2.1.html>.

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People turning prayer wheels, Palkhor Chode