The Ya-so and subordinate officers at Lugu Gardrik festival, Lhasa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Officials dressed in finery gathered entrance to ornamental tent. The Lugu Gardrik Ceremony, part of the New Year Games at Lhasa, is described in detail in The People of Tibet, pp. 273-76. See also, Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 31-33. Subjects = B...
The two Ya-so seated in the open with their attendants standing behind them. The Ya-so were established by the 5th Dalai Lama in honour of Gusri Khan, the Mongol. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; festivals; Lugu Gardrik Ceremony; religion; religion (Buddhism) Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Spectators at the Ache Lhamo at Norbu Lingka, Lhasa, with corner of stage in foreground. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Spectators at the religious drama/opera in the park of the Dalai Lama's country palace outside Lhasa. For a description of the Ache Lhamo, see Hugh Richardson, Ceremonies of the Lhasa Year (Serindia, London, 1993), pp. 97-99. Subjects = Ache Lhamo (Tibetan re...
My Ache Lhamo in Tse-trung Lingka, near Lhasa. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography View looking towards spectators at the religious drama/opera. The following figures seated in the tent on the roof are identified: Bell, Kennedy, Yapshi Sarpa, Tsarong Shappe, Ngar-po Shappe, Parkang, Duke of Punkang and two others...'Below in verandah are my l...
My Ache Lhamo. Gya-za Pe-za. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Performance taking place beneath awning, with spectators in semi-circle beyond. Presumably taken from Bell's vantage point on the roof (see print 136). Bell's typescript index describes this point in the performance as follows: 'Chinese Emperor, with long moust...