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39052. Photo 1000/34(3563)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1000/34(3563)
- Title:
- No. 114. Rangoon. The Votive Tree. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Landscape Photography Offerings hanging from the tree, probably in the precincts of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Letterpress continues: 'Offering of muslin are suspended from this in honor of Gautama; some even have prayers written on them in the idea that every breeze would waft their petitio...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Extent:
- 1 item
39053. Photo 1003(2574)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1003(2574)
- Title:
- Group of Buddhist monks, Mandalay. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Ethnographical Photography Posed group of monks. Subjects = ponggyis (Burmese monks)
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1880s
- Extent:
- 1 item
39054. Photo 1167(3)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(3)
- Title:
- Palden Ngodrup praying in the shrine room of his house in Hal, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography 'The late Palden Ngodrup praying in the shrine room of his house in Hal. These rooms are used daily for prayer and ritual. On special occasions, monks, an oracular medium, a healer or an exorcist may be invited. Offerings of water bowls and butter lamps are set out d...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Jul 1993
- Extent:
- 1 item
39055. Photo 1167(10)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(10)
- Title:
- The Chicham oracular medium in a state of trance, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Portrait of the medium, in front of a small table of which various items stand, with a row of women squatting in the background: 'The Chichim oracular medium in a state of trance. The local deities that take possession of such mediums during trance are widely consulted for important decisions. C...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Jul 1993
- Extent:
- 1 item
39056. Photo 1167(34)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(34)
- Title:
- Three Buchen praying in front of an altar at Sagnam, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography 'Three Buchen in the village of Sagnam, praying in front of an altar with Tibetan Thankas and a statue of Thangtong Gyalpo. This is part of a stone breaking ceremony, an ancient and elaborate exorcism ritual, first performed in central Tibet in the fifteenth century'...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Oct 1998
- Extent:
- 1 item
39057. Photo 1167(53)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(53)
- Title:
- Buchen Chettan Dorje and Pema Namgyal praying in a house in Lara, Spiti. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Portrait Photography 'Buchen Chettan Dorje and Pema Namgyal praying in a house in Lara. Chettan Dorje is reading and reciting from Tibetan scripts, Pema Namgyal is turning a prayer wheel. Buchen are religious performers who bring the teachings of the Dharma and the message of Buddhism to...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Feb 2004
- Extent:
- 1 item
39058. Photo 1167(69)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1167(69)
- Title:
- An altar erected on the roof a house in Lhalung, Spiti, for a performance of a stone breaking ceremony. Photographer: Sutherland, Patrick
- Scope & Content:
- 'An altar erected on the roof a house in Lhalung for a performance of a stone breaking ceremony. The altar consist of a background of thankas (painted religious cloth scrolls), and a carved wooden travelling box on which are placed a statue of Thangtong Gyalpo, offerings of bowls of barley and w...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Feb 2006
- Extent:
- 1 item
39059. Photo 1192(44)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1192(44)
- Title:
- Shwe Dagon Pagoda [Rangoon]. A scene [Buddha images]. Photographer: Ahuja, D. A.
- Scope & Content:
- Coloured postcard, undivided back. Group of Buddha images at the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1900s
- Extent:
- 1 item
39060. Photo 1401
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1401
- Title:
- Libraries and Manuscripts of Laos. Photographer(s): Berger, Hans Georg
- Scope & Content:
- A portfolio of photographs documenting traditional libraries, scribes, objects linked to manuscript writing and storage, the revival of the teaching of manuscript reading, the discovery and cleaning of palm-leaf manuscripts and manuscripts on sa-paper, as well as Buddhist ceremonies links to man...
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 1994-2012
- Extent:
- 63 items