Settlement of Gyal in the Phenpo valley

Settlement of Gyal in the Phenpo valley

2001.59.13.50.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1949

Region

Phenpo Valley Region > Gyal

Accession number

2001.59.13.50.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 60 mm

Settlement of Gyal (rgyal) in the Phenpo valley surrounded by fields. The temple may be seen on the left of the settlement and there are animals grazing in the foreground.

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

Published

‘High Peaks, Pure Earth’, Hugh Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - 'NYEMO. SAMYE. YARLUNG. RGYAL.' is written on the cover of this blue negative album in white in Richardson's hand. [KC 24/3/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes on Blue negative album index - No. 50. 'RGYAL'.

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Richardson's handlist: 'Blue Album. [Nos.] 50, 51. 'Rgyal Lha-khang in 'Phan-po, north of Lhasa. Founded 1012. My article in JRAS April 1957, records an inscribed pillar there (photographs of pillar in another album).'

Research publication - H. E. Richardson, High Peaks, Pure Earth' , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, plate 51. "Rgyal." [KC 09/11/2006]

Other Information - Background: Richardson discusses the site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, "Near the head of the 'Phan-po valley is the temple of Rgyal (1949), founded in 1012 by Zhang Sna-nam Rdo-rje dbang-phyug, whose family was related by marriage to the Tibetan kings. In front of the temple is a tall stone pillar with a partly damaged inscription of no real historical interest. The temple, formerly famed for its wealth, was looted and damaged by fire by the invading Mongols in 1280 ... The original name of the temple was Rgyal Lug-lhas, "The Sheepfold"." (p. 309)

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: Hugh Richardson's interest in photographing inscription pillars and historical sites seems to have been particularly accute during the period 1948-50, although he states in A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions [Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1985, p.72] that he visited this site two miles out of Lhasa on many occasions [MS 16/12/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Settlement of Gyal in the Phenpo valley" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.13.50.1.html>.

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