2001.35.396.27.1 (Album Print black & white)
Evan Yorke Nepean
Evan Yorke Nepean
September 8th 1936?
Lhasa > Lingkhor
2001.35.396.27.1
90 x 58 mm
Print silver
Loaned August 2002
Judy Goldthorp
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Lady Nepean
YN.48
2001.35.133.1 1998.131.227
Other Information - Related Images: The negative for this image is in the Frederick Spencer Chapman collection at the PRM. 'YN 48' has been scratched into the negative in the bottom left hand corner. [MS 16/03/2006]
Notes on print/mount - 'Bas reliefs.' [MS 30/07/2006]
Other Information - Dates: This image has been dated by relating it to similar images taken by Frederick Spencer Chapman in the PRM collections. [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - Cultural Background: The Lingkhor (or outer circumambulation route) around Lhasa is regularly walked by pilgrims and other Tibetan Buddhists as a merit accruing act. These carvings (located on the route near the Medical College at Chakpori) depict a thousand Buddhas interspersed with three larger images of Sakyamuni Buddha which were painted red, blue and gold. Devotees would spin prayer wheels, recite mantras or perform full-length prostrations along the path, stopping at key points such as this to carry out other activities. At this particular site the forehead would be placed onto a Buddha image, a finger placed inside a hole or the pilgrim would crawl under the slab of rock at the foot of the wall. [CH 2003]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Deities carved into rock face on Lingkhor"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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