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Photo, Print, Drawing Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from Southeast. Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from SE

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Title

  • Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from Southeast.

Other Title

  • Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from SE

Summary

  • This southeastern view of the Kunde-ling monastic palace (also seen as Kunduling or Kontia Ling in other sources) 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. The abbot of this monastic palace was regent (gyel bo or gyal-tsab) at the time of the 1882 visit to Lhasa by Sarat Chandra Das, who described passing the residence of the regent in his 1902 edition of Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet: ". . . we passed Kunduling, the residence of the regent, and entered the city by the western gateway, called the Pargo kaling chorten, and my heart leaped with exultation as I now reached the goal of my journey--the far-famed city of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet." The dark building with the roof in Chinese style is a Chinese shrine (called Balalugu or Baralalugu). On W.W. Waddell's plan of Lhasa (1904), the hill where the shrine stands is called Ba-mo (also seen as bong-ba). The shrine stands at the northwestern corner of Kunde-ling, not at the southeastern corner, where it is placed on A-K's plan of Lhasa. ("A-K" refers to Pandit Kishen Singh, a legendary explorer of the Survey of India who in 1878-1882 traveled to Tibet and mapped the city of Lhasa.) 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. Photographer.
  • Tsybikov, G. Ts. (Gonbochzhab Tsebekovich), 1873-1930 Associated Name.

Created / Published

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

Headings

  • -  China--Tibet--Lhasa
  • -  1900 to 1901
  • -  Architecture, Chinese
  • -  Castles and palaces
  • -  Monasteries, Buddhist
  • -  Shrines

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: A-K's Plan of Lhasa (1878): http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,107 External |S.C. Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (London: John Murray, 1902).|W.W. Rockhill, Tibet (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1890).|Waddell's Plan of Lhasa (1904): http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,110 External
  • -  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

  • 2021670599

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Norzunov, Ovshe M. Photographer, and G. Ts Tsybikov. Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from Southeast. Lhasa China Tibet, 1900. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1901] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670599/.

APA citation style:

Norzunov, O. M. P. & Tsybikov, G. T. (1900) Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from Southeast. Lhasa 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/2021670599/.

MLA citation style:

Norzunov, Ovshe M. Photographer, and G. Ts Tsybikov. Lhasa, Kunduling Monastic Palace from Southeast. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1901] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670599/>.