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Photo 1006/1(474)
- Record Id:
- 041-003142582
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003142181
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026192874.0x000192
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1006/1(474)
- Title:
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Kanam. The Kangyur Monastery. Photographer: Pindi Lal (Archaeological Survey of India).
- Scope & Content:
- General view of the monastery, with hillside rising behind. Francke (1914), p. 16: 'We spent the night between 30th June and 1st July at Kanam ... The village as well as the monastery presents a purely Tibetan appearance. The monastery ... was the first one on the road which by the natives themselves was asserted to be of ancient origin. It is said to go back to the days of Lotsaba Rin-chen-bzang-po (Ratna-bhadra) 964-1054 A.D. No relic of these ancient days, however, remains. The monastery consists of three separate halls situated in different parts of the village. The uppermost of them is called dGon-pa or monastery proper. It is a building of the ordinary Tibetan type, constructed of undried bricks with a flat roof. It contains the cells of the lamas who belong to the Ge-lug-pa sect, and an insignificant temple...'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003142181
040-003142183
041-003142582 - Is part of:
- Photo 1006 : Archaeological Survey of India: Frontier Circle Photographs. Photographer(s): Archaeological Survey of India
Photo 1006/1 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Frontier Circle, 1906-10. Photographer(s): Archaeological Survey of India (Pindi Lal…
Photo 1006/1(474) : Kanam. The Kangyur Monastery. Photographer: Pindi Lal (Archaeological Survey of India). - Hierarchy:
- 032-003142181[0002]/040-003142183[0399]/041-003142582
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1006
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
- Start Date:
- 1909
- End Date:
- 1909
- Date Range:
- 30 Jun-1 Jul 1909
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
-
Gelatin silver print, 106 mm x 152 mm
Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Publications:
- Published as plate 8(a), August Hermann Francke, Antiquities of Indian Tibet, Archaeological Survey of India, New Imperial Series, vol. XXXVIII (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1914).
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Lal, Pindi
- Subjects:
- Archaeological Survey Of India Collections
Archaeological Survey Of India: Frontier Circle
Architecture
Buddhist Monasteries
Kangyur Monastery (Kanam)
Monasteries - Places:
- Kanam, Himachal Pradesh, India