Gonpo Tsering Phunkhang with arms around a monk

Gonpo Tsering Phunkhang with arms around a monk

2001.59.7.20.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1940 - 1950

Named Person

Gonpo Tsering Phunkhang

Region

Lhasa

Accession number

2001.59.7.20.1

Image Dimensions

55 x 57 mm

Phunkhang Gonpo Tsering (phun khang mgon po tshe ring), the son of Phunkhang Tashi Dorje standing with his arms around a monk in front of a house. There is a decorated pillar behind them and a trellis wall.

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' [KC 11/8/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - Folio 20. 'Phunkang Se & monk'. [KC 11/8/2006]

Other Information - Biography: Phunkhang Gonpo Tsering (b.1918) is mentioned in Luciano Petech,'s Aristocracy and Government in Tibet 1728-1959 , Serie Orientale Roma XLV, Roma: Is. M.E.O, 1973 p. 27. He was the eldest son of Phunkhang Tashi Dorje and was bka'-drung in 1938, Gyantse rdzong-dpon in 1939 and married the eldest daughter of the Maharaja of Sikkim in 1940. [KC 11/8/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Gonpo Tsering Phunkhang with arms around a monk" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.7.20.1.html>.

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