Container Reference (shelfmark): Photo 1112/5 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(463)
Title:: Frescoe portraying fighting between Buddhists and Muhammadans, in accordance with story of Chang Shambhala, in cloister of main temple, Sam-ye. Detail showing fighting on right of circle. Buddhists in left, Muhammadans on right. Very faint. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; frescoes; monasteries; paintings and drawings Location = Samye; Tibet
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(464)
Title:: Top portion and roof of Cho-kyong's Temple at Sam-ye: PRINT MISSING. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Subjects = Bell Collection
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(465)
Title:: Top portion and roof of Cho-kyong's Temple at Sam-ye, view from the left. The entrance to the Breath House (U-kang) is below (bottom centre). Religious emblems, cloth and gilt, on roof. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = architectural elements; Bell Collection; doorways; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Samye; Tibet
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(466)
Title:: The outside door of the Breath House, Chokyong's Temple, Sam-ye. Stuffed skins of a wolf, a dog and a monkey hanging in front of it. Cloth sacks also in front, with human faces painted in red and black. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = architectural elements; Bell Collection; doorways; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Samye; Tibet
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(467)
Title:: One of the four large chotens at Sam-ye. This one is greenish-blue. Ha-po Ri in background with temple on top. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Bell Collection; chortens (stupas); stupas; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Samye; Tibet
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(468)
Title:: Wall of Sam-ye Monastery enclosure, showing upper right part of Ha-po Ri in background. Ha-po Ri is one of the four 'great hills' (ri-chen) in Central Tibet. It is about 400 ft. high, an ugly bare mass of earth and stones. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Wall in foreground, with row of finials in the form of miniature chortens running along the top. Ha-po Ri in the background, with a temple visible at the summit. Subjects = architectural elements; Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan arc...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(469)
Title:: One of the three temples at Sam-ye, outside the wall: PRINT MISSING. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Subjects = Bell Collection
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(470)
Title:: Another of the queen temples at Sam-ye. This one is named U-tse Ser-kang: PRINT MISSING. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Subjects = Bell Collection
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(471a)
Title:: Two white chotens on rocks, four or five miles from Sam-ye, marking spot where King Ti-song De-tsen met Padma Sambhava, when the latter came from India. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from the roadway below, looking up towards the chortens, perched on massive boulders above. 'There were five Brahmans with him. Each of them made one of these chotens, and then disappeared within it. The other three chotens are a little further on. Each cho...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1112/5(471b)
Title:: Two white chotens on rocks, four or five miles from Sam-ye, marking spot where King Ti-song De-tsen met Padma Sambhava, when the latter came from India. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Almost identical to print 471a. Subjects = Bell Collection; chortens (stupas); stupas; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Samye; Tibet
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1933-1934
Extent:: 1 item

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