Arrival at Min-dro-ling Monastery. Photographer: Unknown
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''D.B. Palhese has dismounted from his pony to present the usual scarf (ka-ta) to the priest at Min-dro-ling, who has come out to welcome us. He is elling the priest that I am just riding up, both are looking back in my direction.' Subjects = Bell Collection; rites and customs; salutations; tr...
In the main courtyard at Min-dro-ling Monastery. Left to right, the priest, myself (Charles Bell), Colonel Harnett and Dewan Bahadur Palhese. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography Small, square format print. Named figures standiung in courtyard. Subjects = Bell Collection; monasteries; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist) Location = Mindroling; Tibet
Chotens containing the ashes of deceased lamas, mixed with clay and fashioned into tsa-tsa. Photographer: Bell, Charles Alfred
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of a group of chortens or stupas. location unspecified. Subjects = Bell Collection; chortens (stupas); stupas; Tibetan architecture; Tibetan architecture (Buddhist)