Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1936-50

Region

Phenpo Valley Region > Shara Bumpa

Accession number

BMR.6.8.221

Image Dimensions

60 x 90 mm

Shara Bumpa temples and reliquary monuments.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Transparency Colour

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Other Information

Technical Information - The cameras used to take this collection of colour slides (Dufay colour) were a Zeiss Super Ikonta and a Reflex Korelle. [KC 09/10/2006]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Typewritten handlist entitled 'Hugh Richardson Collection, The British Museum. Photographs taken between 1936-50. Cameras: Zeiss Super Ikonta, Reflex Korelle. 300 colour slides (Dufay colour); copies made Jan. 1995.
[no.] 221. Shar Bumpa, a site with a cluster of temples and a bumpa (large chorten) at the centre, southwest of Lhundup Dzong.' [KC 11/10/2006]

Other Information - Background: Richardson mentions this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 310. "A little way northwest of the [Lhun-grub] rdzong is Shar-ra Bum-pa , a large mchod-rten built by the scholar and teacher Sha-ra-ba, a large mchod-rten built by the scholar and teacher Sha-ra-ba, a contemporary of Glang-ri-thang-pa. There are several smaller mchod-rten and a nunnery there." [KC 21/10/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Shara Bumpa temples and reliquary monuments" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.6.8.221.html>.

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Shara Bumpa temples and reliquary monuments