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Photo, Print, Drawing Tashi-lhunpo Monastery.

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Title

  • Tashi-lhunpo Monastery.

Summary

  • This photograph shows the Tashi-lhunpo monastery (also seen as Tashi-lhumpo in other sources). Specifically, the photograph shows a rear view of the (gilded) roof over the tomb of the fourth Pan-ch'en (or Panchen) Lama. It is from a collection of 50 photographs of central Tibet acquired in 1904 from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in Saint Petersburg by the American Geographical Society. In Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (1902), Sarat Chandra Das writes: "We entered the monastery of Tashilhunpo by the little western gate, in front of which stand two chortens--one very large with a gilt spire, the other smaller but neatly constructed. [. . .] The rays of the setting sun shone on the gilded spires of the houses and tombs in the monastery, and made a most enchanting picture." Das also reports the words of Captain Samuel Turner, who had viewed the monastery in its infancy: "If the magnificence of the place was to be increased by any external cause, none would more superbly have adorned its numerous gilded canopies and turrets than the sun rising in full splendour directly opposite. It presented a view wonderfully beautiful and brilliant; the effect was little short of magic, and it made an impression which no time will ever efface from my mind." The photographs in this collection were taken by two Mongolian Buddhist lamas, G.Ts. Tsybikov and Ovshe (O.M.) Norzunov, who visited Tibet in 1900 and 1901. Accompanying the photos is a set of notes written in Russian for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society by Tsybikov, Norzunov, and other Mongolians familiar with central Tibet. Alexander Grigoriev, corresponding member of the American Geographical Society, translated the notes from Russian into English in April 1904.

Names

  • Norzunov, Ovshe M. Associated Name.
  • Tsybikov, G. Ts. (Gonbochzhab Tsebekovich), 1873-1930 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1900 to 1901]

Headings

  • -  China--Tibet
  • -  1900 to 1901
  • -  Architectural decorations and ornaments
  • -  Architecture, Chinese
  • -  Buddhist architecture
  • -  Monasteries, Buddhist
  • -  Tombs

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph ; 5.5 x 8.5 inches.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: S.C. Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (London: John Murray, 1902).
  • -  Original resource at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Views of Great Tibet

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670626

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Norzunov, Ovshe M. Associated Name, and G. Ts Tsybikov. Tashi-lhunpo Monastery. China Tibet, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1901] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670626/.

APA citation style:

Norzunov, O. M. A. N. & Tsybikov, G. T. (1900) Tashi-lhunpo Monastery. China Tibet, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1901] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670626/.

MLA citation style:

Norzunov, Ovshe M. Associated Name, and G. Ts Tsybikov. Tashi-lhunpo Monastery. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1901] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670626/>.