Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

March 4th 1921

Region

Lhasa > Barkhor > Jokhang > Sungchora

Accession number

1998.285.163.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Wrestling competition on 4th March 1921 as part of the Jampa Dendren festival or 'Invitation to Maitreya'. The Dalai Lama is seated in an upper verandah on the right, Bell and Kennedy are seated behind a window below this (left centre). Wrestlers from the Dalai Lama's bodyguard regiment can be seen in the foreground and spectators are lining the sqaure

Further Information

Activity

Wrestling

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

L.137

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.140

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Wrestling competition outside Jokhang" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.163.2.html>.

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