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Photo 1084, 2(10)

Record Id:

040-003299849

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003299839

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x000a6c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1084, 2(10)

Title:

Dre-pung Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

View looking across the valley towards the monastery on the far hillside: 'This vast building, the largest and richest monastery in Tibet, is situated in an embayment amongst the hills, about four miles outside Lhasa. It is officially supposed to contain 7000 Monks, but there are, as a matter of fact, over 10,000 living there. Dre-pung is a monastic town of steep, narrow stone-paved streets and substantial stone houses. It has one vast hall, 300 feet square, where the whole Monastery assembles on great occasions, and there are also four Gon Pas for the four sections into which the Monastery is divided. The hall and the Gon-Pas are dirty, and contain nothing of exceptional value or interest. The Monastery was built about 500 years ago.' Another copy (printed in platinum) at Photo 430/53 (50).

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003299839
040-003299849

Is part of:

Photo 1084, 2 : Tibet and Lhasa. Photographed by J. C. White, Esq., C.I.E. [Vol. 2 of 2]. Photographer(s): White, John Claude

Photo 1084, 2(10) : Dre-pung Monastery. Photographer: White, John Claude

Hierarchy:

032-003299839[0010]/040-003299849

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1084, 2

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Carbon Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1904

End Date:

1904

Date Range:

1904

Era:

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