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Subject Chortens

1. 1784.a.10(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1784.a.10(20)
Title:
Khiebar. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View across fields towards the cluster of houses of the village of Khibbar, reached by Egerton on 10 July: 'In Khiebar there are twenty houses belonging to landowners, and thirty of forty more inhabited by their dependants and artizans. Across a little ravine, front...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 63135(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 63135(2)
Title:
Rabgyaling Monastery, 14000 ft. Chortens. 30-7-06 Photographer: Calvert, Hubert
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a row of stupas or chortens at the Rabgyaling monastery: On the 30th we had a precipitous ascent of 600 feet in as many yards, and then followed a track through the soft sand to Rabygyaling. This place possesses the useful distinction of being marked on ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
30 Jul 1906
Extent:
1 item

3. Mss Eur D622(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D622(40)
Title:
Devil dancers in Lahul. Photographer: Coldstream, Sir John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Group of costumed and masked dancers posed in front of two small chortens.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1910
Extent:
1 item

4. Neg 1112/7(602)

Reference (shelfmark):
Neg 1112/7(602)
Title:
Gu-shin Suma. Pagoda (Chö-ten) in temple. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards a chorten or small stupa in the temple precinct. Duplicate negative only, no print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1935
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 20(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(7)
Title:
A Chuten [chorten] near the Monastery of Gorina [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This photograph also appears in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 382), with the following caption: 'A fine example of chorten, or shrine, at Gorina Monastery, surrounded by prayer flags. In front a venerable lama is telling his beads. The carving a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 20(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(11)
Title:
Interior of main courtyard: Tashichhu Jong [Thimphu, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the wide paved courtyard towards buildings of the dzong. Photograph also appears in The National Geographic Magazine (Apr 1914, p. 397) with the following caption: 'A courtyard at Tashi-Cho-Jong, with the Citadel on the left and a fine chorte...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 20(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 20(33)
Title:
Chuten [chorten or stupa] built on Nepalese model between Tongsa and Bya-gha [Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of the large chorten or stupa at the roadside. A photograph of the same structure, taken from a different angle and with a small river in the foreground, is at Photo 613 (27), there captioned 'Sambhunath Chutan on road between Simtokha and Tongsa E.' Subj...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 430/53(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(16)
Title:
Chutens [chortens] near Rinchingong. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View showing a group of chortens, with three figures posed in front of the structures. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (15), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Dec 1903
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 430/53(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(22)
Title:
Kangmar. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view, looking along the valley towards the Younghusband Mission camp, with a large chorten or stupa and fortified buildings beyond. Another copy at Photo 1084/1 (21), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: 'The last post...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Apr 1904
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 430/53(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/53(63)
Title:
The Potola [Potala Palace] and entrance gate [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the Potala Palace, with the roadway passing through the base of a chorten or stupa in the foreground (the Pargo Kaling Gateway). Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (23), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the caption reads: ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c Aug 1904
Extent:
1 item