Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa >

Accession number

1998.285.223.2

Image Dimensions

81 x 81 mm

Gelukpa Incarnation Lama with his religious implements. Yellow hat on his head; bell, dorje, skull cap, skull drum in front of him. In the bowl on the left is some fruit. The staff at the side he uses when walking. It has a ring round it which he shakes when he reaches his destination, and, hearing this, people bring him food

Further Information

Photographic Process

Lantern Slide

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

L.184

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.195a

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.195 (cm) Gelukpa Incarnation Lama with his religious implements. Yellow hat on his head; bell, dorje, skull cap, skull drum etc. in front of him. In the skull cap is tea without anything, e.g. butter etc., added to it. This he offers to the gods. In the bowl on the left are fruits which he eats. The staff at the side he uses when walking. It has a ring round it which he shakes when he reaches his destination, and, hearing this, people bring him food, so that he does not have to ask for it. [Where placed - book page] I, 36. [Remarks] L.184 (D.L)"

Notes on print/mount - '21' and another crossed out annotation have been written in black ink. This slide seems to have been used by Bell as slide 21 in a lantern lecture titled 'The Dalai Lama' [MS 6/9/2004]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Bell does not distinguish between 1998.285.223 and 1998.285.224 in his list of illustrations and both images may be referenced by the caption for H.195 [MS 8/6/2004]

Research publication - 'Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947' Clare Harris and Tsering Shakya (eds.), Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003, p. 140.

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Gelukpa Incarnation Lama" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.223.2.html>.

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