Largish bear in Pan-chen Rim-po-che's menagerie at Kun-kyap-ling. Known as Tre-mo and sometimes as 'Wild Man' (mi-go). Lives in Chang-tang. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Subjects = animals; bears; Bell Collection; zoos Location = Kun-kyap-ling; Tibet
View of Kun-kyap-ling, looking up a long grassy enclosure. In left middle distance, the square red pillar is the residence of the god (cho-kyong) who protects Kun-kyap-ling. Streamers of prayer flags are stretched across. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Kun-kyap-ling; Tibet
Shi-ga-tse Dzong, the prototype of the Potala. Built of grey stone. Mani wall in centre middle distance. This dzong is by many considered to be the finest dzong in Tibet. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the fort. Subjects = Bell Collection; dzongs; forts Location = Shigatse; Tibet
Shi-ga-tse Dzong, ordinary not telephoto, also showing houses at foot of dzong, and a crowd clustered in the market-place in the foreground. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; dzongs; forts Location = Shigatse; Tibet
Inside an upstairs courtyard of Shi-ga-tse Dzong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'On right, part of the main building; in this part at top is the Court Room of the Chi-dzongs. In centre foreground a pony, and behind it, on a wall, the huge Tibetan mastiff that bit my photographer's assistant so ferociously that he almost fainted from the att...
Court Room in Shi-ga-tse Dzong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of furnished verandah area looking onto open court. 'It faces to a central upstairs rectangular open space, which is surrounded by this and other rooms. Right centre background are the Chi-dzongs' seats facing to the left, i.e. towards the open space. Right...
The seats of the two Chi-dzongs in the Court Room of Shi-ga-tse Dzong. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'In front of the seats are the tables with pens, sealing wax, etc., on them. On back of each seat is painted on silk three gems (nor-bu). Behind the seats and on the left side is a wooden screen ornamented with circles painted red, surrounded by gold tracery.' ...