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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add Or 3013-3043 Level [40] File

21. Add Or 3033

Reference (shelfmark):
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

22. Add Or 3034

Reference (shelfmark):
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

23. Add Or 3035-3040

Reference (shelfmark):
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

24. Add Or 3041

Reference (shelfmark):
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

25. Add Or 3042

Reference (shelfmark):
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

26. Add Or 3043

Reference (shelfmark):
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