BMR.6.8.73 (Transparency colour)
BMR.6.8.73 (Transparency colour)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1936-50
Yarlung Valley Region > Yumbu lakhar
BMR.6.8.73
60 x 90 mm
Transparency Colour
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
Technical Information - The camera 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 - 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.] 73. Yumbu Lagang on the hill, the palace of the early Tibetan kings. [KC 10/10/2006]
Other Information - Setting: Richardson describes this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 319. "Further south [of Khra 'brug in the Yarlung valley] is Yum-bu Bla-mkhar (1949), the ancient palace of the Tibetan kings, prominent on a rocky hill. It is a narrow rectangular building with a slender white tower topped by a gilded rgya-phibs canopy. By tradition it was founded by the mythical king Nya-khri Btsan-po and it is associated, rather more possibly , with king Tho-tho-ri who may be placed tentatively in the middle of the fifth century. Legend has it that in his reign the first Buddhist books fell from heaven onto the roof of the palace, though they could not be understoood at the time. The story gives sanctity to the building which, which is approached by a narrow path up a steep hill and entered through a low door beyond which a steep ladder leads to the first floor. ..." [KC 17/10/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"The ancient palace of Yumbu Lakhar in Yarlung"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.6.8.73.html>.
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