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Photo 1043(293)
- Record Id:
- 040-003165170
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003164877
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026374023.0x0001b3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1043(293)
- Title:
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Monks leading procession through Lhasa. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
- Scope & Content:
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'There was a great procession in the city today. An enormous image of the goddess Palden Lhamo was taken from the Cathedral and carried through the streets. This is the goddess of whom Queen Victoria was supposed to be an incarnation. Lamas, many of them grotesquely masked, first cleared a way through the densely crowded streets. When the goddess appeared long trumpets were blown, drums were beaten, and a great pyramid of straw was burnt in the street, while lamas danced and chanted. The goddess, when the world was young, was about to destroy all creation; but in the nick of time a husband was found for her and he, apparently, appeased her wrath. On the day that she is taken round Lhasa her husband, who is kept in a monastery on the other side of the Kyi Chu, is also taken out and they are allowed to behold each other annually, at a distance of several miles.' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 28 November 1936).
[Gelatin silver print, 108x155mm].
Subjects = monks; processions; religion; religion (Buddhism); religious ceremonies
Location = Lhasa; Tibet
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003164877
040-003165170 - Is part of:
- Photo 1043 : Photographs Taken by the Lhasa Mission 1936-7. Photographer(s): Neame, Philip
Photo 1043(293) : Monks leading procession through Lhasa. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick - Hierarchy:
- 032-003164877[0293]/040-003165170
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1043
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1936
- End Date:
- 1936
- Date Range:
- 28 Nov 1936
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- C17 15
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971