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Add Or 3042
- Record Id:
- 040-003277576
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003277551
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x001f33
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 3042
- Title:
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Play-acting ceremony
- Scope & Content:
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Ceremony [hcham] at Tso-mo-glin, Lhasa.
‘Tsemunling’ [Tso-mo-glin] ‘house of the Lama Raja at Lassa. The ceremony is that of performing or acting a play. The figures of three of the performers are called kyangkurr and are from Tashi Lumpo’ [bKra-sis-lhun-po]’, all the rest are called Tushi jhoba’ [bKra-sis- ] ‘and belong to Lassa.’.
‘These plays are performed in the month Dawadunpa’ [zla-ba, month; bdun-pa, seventh], or Bhadroon of Hindus, August of ours.
Note: Tso-mo-glin was one of the four monastic palaces, or royal monasteries, in Lhasa. The regents who conducted the temporal government during the minority of Dalai Lamas were chosen from the head of these monasteries [glin]. A Lama from Tso-mo-glin was Regent from 1819-1844.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003277551
040-003277576 - Is part of:
- Add Or 3013-3043 : Add.Or.3013-3043 6 large picture maps of Tibet and 25 drawings of places, monasteries, people and ceremonies in Tibet bound…
Add Or 3042 : Play-acting ceremony - Hierarchy:
- 032-003277551[0025]/040-003277576
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 3013-3043
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Tibetan school
- Start Date:
- 1844
- End Date:
- 1862
- Date Range:
- 1844-1862
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Rites and Ceremonies