Car of Juggernauth [at Srivilliputtur]. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
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Inscription: Numbered '333' in the negative. View of a massive carved wood temple car of the Vatapatrashayi Temple at Srivilliputtur. For another copy of this photograph, in better condition, see Photo 212/3 (3).
In the court of the Great Lama Temple—showing Lama priest turning prayer wheel, Peking, China. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
Inscription: Signed and numbered Bourne 2040 in the negative. View looking along a street towards the entrance gopuram, flanked by painted walls, of an unidentified temple. In the middleground a temple car or ratha with tiled roof stands in the roadway. Listed in the Bourne and Shepherd catalog...
Full-length portrait of a Tibetan lama, holding prayer beads, posed against a cloth backdrop and leaning against a stand draped with textiles. This appears to be no. 1132A in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, 'A Thibetian Llama from Lassa.'
Interior of Joss House [Canton]. Photographer: Lai Afong
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Canton was visited by the compiler of this album between 24th and 28th February, 1879. With contemporary descriptive letterpress label: 'No. 50-Mars, Boreas, &c. The truculent fellow on the one side is the God of war; on the other we have the God of wind. These figures must not be taken as r...
Full-length studio portrait of a group of priests, with a table in the centre on which stand religious articles and a miniature statue of Buddha. With contemporary descriptive printed label: 'No. 42-Priests. And here are the priests. Dirty, ignorant, lazy rascals, without exception; but in China...