Subject: Buddhism - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/34(3562)
Title:: No. 113. Rangoon. Great Bell of the [Shwe Dagon] Pagoda. Photographer: Tripe, Linnaeus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography The bell, in an open-sided pavilion, stands beneath a large tree. With India Museum wetstamp (unnumbered) and signed on the print 'L. Tripe'. Duplicate at Photo 61/1 (113).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1855
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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