Self-made image of Buddha in cave on Chakpori [Lhasa]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Bell's typescript index refers readers to Diary XII, p. 57. Subjects = Bell Collection; Buddha images; Tibetan sculpture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Bodh Gaya Temple [Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya]. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Buddhist); temples Location = Bihar; Bodh Gaya; India
House, painted red above and white below, built over cave at Tra Yer-pa, where Atisha lived for a year or so. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking up hillside towards buildings. Atisha was an Indian Buddhist sage who visited Tibet in the 11th century. Subjects = Bell Collection; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Tibet; Trayerpa
Long mani below Pema Yangtse (Pemiongchi) in Sikkim. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the path, with the mani, a wall of inscribed stones, on the left. Another copy at print 301. Subjects = Bell Collection; mani walls; religion; religion (Buddhism) Location = India; Pemiongchi; Sikkim
Throne of the Karmashar oracle at the Festival of 'The Incense of the Whole World,' in the Karmashar Lingka, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group gathered round throne mounted on a platform beneath awning. Photograph taken during the 'Universal Incense Offering' Festival (Dzamling Chisang): see Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 94-95. Subjects = Bell Coll...