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2001.59.15.34.2 (Print)
2001.59.15.34.2 (Print)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1948
East Kyichu Valley Region > Zhwa'i lhakhang monastery
2001.59.15.34.2
60 x 60 mm
Print silver
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Richardson's 1948 tour of the East Kyichu Valley
Notes on print - 'Sha Lhakhang' and ' Zhwa'i Site of inscribed pillars, early 9th century' (in pencil) and 'Zhwa'i' (in black ink) are written on the reverse of print in Richardson's hand and '585' and 'Velox' in an oval is stamped in black. [KC 12/6/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 34. 'do' [Zhwa'i Lhakhang] [KC 15/5/2006]
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Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [nos] 33-41, 'Xhwa'i Lha-khang is in a side valley on the left bank of the Skyid-chu a short way downstream from Rdzong-gsar. There is a chapel founded in the 9th century and two inscribed pillars of that date. See my article in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS) 1952 and 1953' [KC 17/5/2006]
Research publication - High Peaks, Pure Earth , H. E. Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998, plate 45.
Other Information - Setting: Richardson visited this site in 1948 and 1949 and describes it in High Peaks, Pure Earth , H. E. Richardson, London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 307. " ... in the open valley of the Mang-ra-chu, facing the point where the Skyid-chu, flowing from the north, turns sharply westwards, is the little Zhwa'i Lha-khang (1949, 1949), the 'Temple of the Hat'. It is approached through a courtyards where the three resident monks kept their cattle. At either side of the entrance to the temple is a stone pillar, now damaged, bearing inscriptions by Khri Lde-srong-brtsan in honour of the founder, the famous monk-minister Myang Ting-nge-'dzin bzang-po, whose waard and pupil he had benn in his minority. A door opens onto a little enclosure with a white mcho-rten in the centre, beyond which could be seen through th eopen door of the temple the image of Rnam-par snang-mdzad (Vairocana) on the alter with the Eight Disciples of the Buddha on either side. ... the basic structure of the temple appeared to have survived unchanged since the early years of the ninth century. A little way from the building is a white mchod-rten containing the miraculous hat of Myang Ting-nge-'dzin. The legend tells how he had been promised as much grain as would fill his hat: putting his hat , which had a hole init, over the granary, the grain poured through to provide he wherewithall to build his temple."
Other Information - Location: Richardson describes his visit to Zhwa'i lhakhang in 1948 in 'The Chapel of the Hat', chapter 61 of High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, pp. 722-726.
Other Information - Dates: The contact print of this image is part of a group made from 6x6 negatives that share the same batch development number [585 printed in black ink]. All of the contact prints processed in this batch seem to have been taken during or around the time of a trip to Drigung Monastery and Zhwai (Sha) Lhakhang, including Tsa Pobrag, Yeregang and Khyer. Photographs from this trip can be dated to 1948. In A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions [ Hertford: Stephen Austin and Son, Royal Asiatic Society, James G. Forlong Series, No. XXIX, 1985, p.45] Richardson states of the Zhwai inscriptions translated in the book that “The texts, which were first published in JRAS in 1952 and 1954, are based on copies and photographs made by me in 1948 and checked on a second visit in the following year”.
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"Zhwa'i lhakhang monastery"
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