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Photo 855(13)
- Record Id:
- 040-003122704
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003122691
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x0005ba
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145091881.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 855(13)
- Title:
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A Buddhist Temple at Sumboonath, 2 miles from Khatmandoo, date of erection unknown. Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
Description in Taylor's List of pictures: 'No XIII. A Buddhist Temple at Sumbhoonath distant about 2 miles from Khatmandoo. It is of great antiquity. Date of erection unknown. It exhibits well the three essential parts of a "Chaitya" or mound temple namely, 1st the Hemisphere of solid base, or "gurbh", 2nd the square Capital or "Toran" surmounting the gurbh and having the oblong half-closed eyes of Buddha painted on each side of its four sides, 3rd the conical spire or "chura-mani" which always consists of thirteen segments representing the 13 Buddhist heavans, the whole crowned with the gilt "chuttra" on which rest the Kulsa lotus "sur moor" joining a tapering pinnacle the point of which is conical like a flame and represents the "Tok" or sacred light of Buddha. Temples and shrines in the foreground'.
Subjects = Nepalese architecture; Nepalese architecture (Buddhist); stupas; temples
Location = Nepal; Svayambhunath
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003122691
040-003122704 - Is part of:
- Photo 855 : Taylor Collection: Early views in Nepal.
Photo 855(13) : A Buddhist Temple at Sumboonath, 2 miles from Khatmandoo, date of erection unknown. Photographer: Taylor, Clarence Comyn - Hierarchy:
- 032-003122691[0013]/040-003122704
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 855
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145091881.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1863
- End Date:
- 1865
- Date Range:
- 1863-1865
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known