Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1950?

Named Person

Kundeling Dzasa Woser Gyaltsen

Region

Lhasa > Drepung Monastery

Accession number

2001.59.7.42.1

Image Dimensions

43 x 54 mm

Monk, Kundeling Dzasa Woser Gyaltsen, standing in front of a flight of steps leading into a building with a window on the right.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '7' 'PEOPLE'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 42. 'Lama from Drepung'

Other Information - Biography: 'This is the Kundeling Dzasa, Woser Gyaltsan, who with Phala engineered the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet. He lived in Dharamsala and hardly spoke English or Hindi. He died four years ago.' [KC 9/6/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Kundeling Dzasa Woser Gyaltsen" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.42.1.html>.

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