Temple near De Wang's Residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. Lama holding incense stick. The hat can be worn by an abbot, Ge-ko, or um-dze, but not by an ordinary monk. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a lama, standing in the temple courtyard, dressed in robes and a plumed hat and carrying an incense stick. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Temple near De Wang's Residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. Lama priest calling for prayers. He beats his hammer on the block of wood, both being of cedar (tsen-den). This call to prayer with cedar wood is made only at the full moon and the new moon. And only one who has attained the rank of Ge-long is allowed to make this call at new moon and full moon. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a lama, standing on the temple vernadah and making the call to prayer. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Temple near De Wang's Residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. Lama holding incense stick. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a lama, wearing robes and plumed hat and holding a long incense stick. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Temple near De Wang's Residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. Lamas praying in temple court. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography View looking towards a group of monks, seated at prayer in the courtyard of the temple, with a lama standing with an incense stick at the right. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Temple near De Wang's Residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. Lamas praying the Ge-ko is perfuming the air with his long incense stick. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View looking towards a seated group at prayer in the courtyard, with the standing figure of the abbot holding an incense stick and temple buildings behind. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Temple near De Wang's residence. The temple for the West Sunid Hoshun. 'Wind Horse' (lung-ta). Extracts from the sacred books are written on the cotton cloth. These poles are usually erected near monasteries. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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View of pole embedded in stone cairn, with grassland beyond. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Gu-shin Suma. Chahar Mongol woman circuitng the ling-kor round Gu-shin Suma, carrying a volume of the Sutras of the Buddha — the volume known as 'The Eight Thousand' — on her back. The Lama told her to do this as a cure for her illness. At present she is tired and resting awhile, and telling her beads. Wangil heard the above from her. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of the woman resting in the course of her circumambulation. The sutras are carried on a wooden frame on her back. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Gu-shin Suma. Monks preparing offerings to be used by a Living Buddha (Trül-ku) in his worship (zhen-don). The offerings are butter lamps, tormas, etc. The Living Buddha, a high one from Am-do — we met him — is seated inside the adjoining building. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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View looking towards the open-sided tent adjoining one of the monastery buildings, with monks preparing the offerings beneath the canopy. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Gu-shin Suma. Residence of god of the district. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards a cairn, surmounted by poles to which extracts from sacred books are attached. This is similar to the obo seen in neg. 331. See also neg. 556.With a young boy posed in front of the structure. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Village Ho-er-tu-lor. Chahar Mongol man with child. On the man's chest is a packet containing extracts from the Buddhist scriptures. Different extracts protect against different ills, may be of sickness, may be of other calamities. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a Mongolian man, posed with the child seen in other photographs in this series. Duplicate negative only, no print.