Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Lingkhor

Accession number

1998.286.242

Image Dimensions

78 x 103

Painted carving of eleven-headed Chenrezi on Chakpori by the side of the Lingkhor pilgrimage route in Lhasa

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Previous Catologue Number

Q.231

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.Q.231

Related Collections

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] Q231 (w) Painting of eleven-headed Chenrezi on Chak-po-ri by the side of the Ling-khor. One passes it coming towards Dekyi Lingka, where we lodged, just after crossing the little bridge where the fish collect and a little before reaching the Sacred Rock on which the numerous paintings are."

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - Published in 'The Religion of Tibet', Bell, C. A., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931, facing p.34 (top):"Rough painting of Chen-re-zi, in the eleven-headed form, on a rock in Lhasa."

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Carving on Chakpori by the Lingkhor" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.286.242.html>.

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