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3181. Add Or 3033

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Add Or 3033
Title:
Officials and tents
Scope & Content:
Officials and tents. Inscribed on picture in Tibetan and English, with no separate explanatory text: ‘1. An Englishman. A missionary.’ ‘2. Lha-sahi-ka-blon’ [bkah-blon]’ Minister, one of four, who assisted the Regent.’ ‘3. rgya-nag-am-pa’ [am-ban] ‘Chinese Residents, or political officers....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3182. Add Or 3034

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Add Or 3034
Title:
Initiation ceremonies for dGe-lugs-pa monks.
Scope & Content:
Initiation ceremonies for dGe-lugs-pa monks. Inscribed: ‘This represents the ceremonies attending the instalment or investment or investiture of a Lama of the Gelukpa’ [dGe-lugs-pa]’ sect.’ ‘1. When a boy is 5 months of age then he is taken to a Lama and gives a present and he receives his na...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3183. Add Or 3035-3040

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Add Or 3035-3040
Title:
Wedding ceremonies.
Scope & Content:
Wedding ceremonies, without descriptive text.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3184. Add Or 3041

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Add Or 3041
Title:
Ceremony for destruction of enemies
Scope & Content:
‘No descriptive text. A ceremony’ [for destruction of enemy]’ at monastery at Chongay, in central Tibet.’ Inscribed on picture: ‘Chongyériodéchin’ [hPhyon-rgyas-ri-bo-bde-chen], with figures etc. captioned:. ‘Shawa’ [sa-ba]. ‘Gunbo’ [mkhon-po]. ‘Thumchun Tchugyul’ [dam-can-chos-rgyal]. ‘...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3185. Add Or 3042

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Add Or 3042
Title:
Play-acting ceremony
Scope & Content:
Ceremony [hcham] at Tso-mo-glin, Lhasa. ‘Tsemunling’ [Tso-mo-glin] ‘house of the Lama Raja at Lassa. The ceremony is that of performing or acting a play. The figures of three of the performers are called kyangkurr and are from Tashi Lumpo’ [bKra-sis-lhun-po]’, all the rest are called Tushi jh...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3186. Add Or 3043

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Add Or 3043
Title:
The Nechung oracle
Scope & Content:
The Nechung [gNas-chun] oracle. Inscribed: ‘Dépungnéchung’ [hBras-spuns gNas-chun]’ a Gunpo about 2 coss from Lassa.’ Note: Drepung, hBass-spuns, is four miles West of Lhasa: Nechung, gNas-chun, about half a mile south of Drepung, is the monastery of the state oracle. ‘See’ Nebesky-Wojkowitz:...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844-1862
Extent:
1 Item

3187. Add Or 3044

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Add Or 3044
Title:
Buddhist deities of the Bhairava (Krodha) or yabyum kind.
Scope & Content:
Buddhist deities of the ‘bhairava (krodha)’ or ‘yabyum’ kind. By a Tibetan artist, mid-19th century. A number of the deities are inscribed with their names in Tibetan script. Inscribed on back in Tibetan script (dbu-can) vertically placed: ‘Om ah hum svah hah; in’ modern cursive dbu-med: ‘zes...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

3188. Add Or 3045

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Add Or 3045
Title:
Prayer scroll with six panels
Scope & Content:
Prayer scroll with six panels. By a Tibetan artist, mid-19th century. The panels contain circular patterns inscribed with the Tibetan characters ‘A’, ‘Su’, ‘Ni’, ‘Tri’, ‘Pre’, and ‘Du’. Gouache on cloth with silk brocade ends on rollers; 48 by 7 ins. Presented by Brian Houghton Hodgson Augus...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1820-1843
Extent:
1 Item

3189. Add Or 3046

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Add Or 3046
Title:
Mandala
Scope & Content:
A Tibetan mandala. By a Tibetan artist, c.1880. Inscribed in Tibetan characters with points of the compass. Pen-and-ink and water-colour; 10.75 by 10.75 ins. Circumstances of acquisition unrecorded.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880
Extent:
1 Item

3190. Add Or 3047

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Add Or 3047
Title:
Acala
Scope & Content:
Acala. 32 by 23.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

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