In Nachung [Nechung] Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a courtyard in the monastery, draped with prayer flags, towards the group of monks posed on a flight of steps. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (16), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
Rock carved with Bhuddist [sic] figures [Lhasa]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the circumabulatory road, festooned with prayer flags and with the rock face on the right carved with Buddha images and other religious motifs. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (30), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]), where the captio...
Genre: Landscape Photography View along a river valley, presumably the Kyi Chu, with prayer flags hanging over the road in the foreground. Another copy at Photo 1084/2 (40), in White's 'Tibet and Lhasa' (Calcutta, [c. 1906]).
The Ling-kor, or circular sacred road of Lhasa. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the road, hung with prayer flags and with three figures posed beside the building in the foreground: 'The pilgrims can be seen wending their way round the circular road, turning their prayer wheel, and acquiring merit by avoiding the puddles. To ac...