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040-003085136 Subject Buddhist Monasteries

1. Photo 430/53(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(32)
Title:
Samding Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Slightly distant view looking across the valley towards the monastery, set on a rocky hillside. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (30), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This Monastery is always presided over by an Abbess. and ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Jul 1904
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 430/53(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(59)
Title:
Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view, looking across the valley towards the monastery and hillside rising behind. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (19), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'This is another large monastery outside Lhasa, similar to, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 430/53(50)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(50)
Title:
Debung [Drepung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the valley towards Drepung Monastery, situated on hillside north-west of Lhasa. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (10), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads in part: 'This vast building, the largest and riche...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 430/53(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(53)
Title:
Nachung [Nechung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards monastery buildings, partly obscured by trees in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (13), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 430/53(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(60)
Title:
In Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of monastery buildings, with mountainside rising behind. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (20), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 430/53(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(54)
Title:
Entrance to Nachung [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along a street towards a flight of stone steps and monastery buildings, with a group of novice monks posed in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (14), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 430/53(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(55)
Title:
Nachung [Nechung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up a flight of steps towards monastery buildings. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (15), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 430/53(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(58)
Title:
Lama's dwelling, Nachung [Nechung Monastery]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the courtyard and part of the house, with a figure posed with a dog in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (18), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 430/53(52)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(52)
Title:
Image in Debung [Drepung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Detail of a large carved seated Buddha image. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (12), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'The appearance of the image in the photograph suggests greater magnificance than really appertains to i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 430/53(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(61)
Title:
The stewards of Sera Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of lamas, taken in the street, with monastery buildings behind. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (21), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'On the right of the photograph are the two steel maces which are the emblem...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Sep 1904
Extent:
1 item