Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

February 11th - 14th 1921

Region

Lhasa > Jokhang

Accession number

1998.285.213

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Spectators in one of the religious services at the Jokhang temple during the Prayer Festival, Monlam Chenmo

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

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

Revised Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Previous Catologue Number

H.186

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.186

Published

'Portrait of the Dalai Lama', Sir Charles Bell, London: Collins, 1946 [view list of illustrations]

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.186 (bl) Spectators in one of the religious services at the temple in the Prayer Festival."

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: The Great Prayer would take place on the 4th to the 6th of the First Tibetan Month. In 1921 there were two days in the western calendar that could equate to the 4th day in the Tibetan lunar month and therefore the date range for this image has been given as 11th-14th February 1921 [MS 20/10/2005]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - This image was published in 'Portrait of the Dalai Lama', Sir Charles Bell, London: Collins, 1946, facing p. 289 [MS 20/05/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Spectators in Jokhang at Monlam Chenmo" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.213.html>.

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