Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa Area > Sera

Accession number

1998.285.210.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Assembly Hall of the "Sera Che" College at Sera monastery, monks on the steps.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Tape Intensifier

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.182

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.182b

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] XXXII to XXXIV. [Subject of Chapter] The Religion [Subject of Illustration] H.182 (be) Assembly Hall of the 'Sera Che' College at Sera, monks on the steps. [Remarks] L.177"

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The Religion of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931, facing p.148:"Monks outside the Assembly Hall of a college in the Se-ra Monastery."

In Negative - A piece of black tape has been stuck on the glass plate on the right hand side. It also appears that the negative has been subjected to an intensifying process, which may have led to the greater degree of sulphiding that is visible on this negative glass plate than some others [MS 23/9/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Assembly Hall at Sera Monastery" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.210.1.html>.

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