Main entrance to Tsuk Lha-khang, Lhasa, with two gilt medallions above the verandah. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of entrance, the verandah supported on massive carved wooden pillars. The Tsuklakhang was a block of religious and adminsitrative buildings which incorporated the Jokang Temple. Subjects = Bell Collection; government buildings; Tibetan architectur...
Sera Monastery in summer. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from mountainside, looking down onto the complex of monastery buildings. Reproduced in Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa year (Serindia, London, 1993), p. 101, where it is identified as Drepung Monastery, but this may be the transposition of two capt...
Kundeling Monastery, Lhasa, in summer. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from hillside looking down onto monastery and adjoining park: 'The houses of the author and his staff were in their park (lingka). Two of the recent heads of this monastery have been regents of Tibet.' Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan arch...