Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1936 - 50

Named Person

Mondroling Lung Rinpoche, Kongtrul Rinpoche, Dechen Chukhor Rinpoche, Phalha?

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.59.7.87.1

Image Dimensions

55 x 57 mm

Group of monks sitting in the garden of Dekyi Lingka. They are from left to right in the front row, Mondroling (smon grol gling) Lung (glung) Rinpoche, the third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche (kong 'sprul rim po che) Khyentse Ozer (mkhyen brtse 'od zer) wearing glasses and Dechen Chukhor Rinpoche. Behind them standing from left to right is a layperson in a fur and brocade hat, a small boy monk and another monk, possible Phalha.

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 87. 'Dechen C.K., Mondroling, Kambu [?]'

Research publication - H. E. Richardson, Tibet and Its History , 1984, (2nd Edition) Boston & London: Shambala, plate 2a, 'Incarnate lamas of the older sects'. [KC 7/7/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Group of monks at Dekyi Linka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.87.1.html>.

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