Ngari Dratshang monastery
2001.59.15.78.1 (Film negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Hugh E. Richardson
Collection
Hugh Richardson
Date of Photo
1949
Region
Tsangpo Valley Region > Ngari Dratshang
Accession number
2001.59.15.78.1
Image Dimensions
55 x 55 mm
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Date Acquired
Donated August 2001
Donated by
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Expedition
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
Previous Catologue Number
Negative Album 9 No. 78
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album (slip cover) - 'Drikhung. Chongye. etc.' in Richardson's hand in white. (Yellow spine label) 'DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. KOTSHAL. RGYAMA. Ganden 1948'. (Cover) - '9 DRIKHUNG. CHONGYE. YARLUNG. GYAMA. GANDEN' [KC 15/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 78. 'Mnga' ris grwa tshang'. [KC 30/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [no] 78. 'Mnga' ris Grwa-tshang. See Mkhye-brtse p 119 note 188.' [KC 3/6/2006]
Other Information - Location: Richardson mentions this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 317, "About twenty miles downstream [of Samye monastery] where the secluded and beautiful 'On valley joins the Gtsnag-po, Mnga'-ris Grwa-tshang (1949) stands proudly on a rocky pinnacle. It was founded in the mid-sixteenth century by the second Dalai Lama to be a college for monks from west Tibet. ... The monks have the western custom of pronouncing every letter of a word when reading."
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Ngari Dratshang monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.15.78.1.html>.
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