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2001.59.15.46.2 (Print)
2001.59.15.46.2 (Print)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1949
Yarlung Valley Region > Yumbu lakhar
2001.59.15.46.2
60 x 60 mm
Print silver
Donated August 2001
The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson
Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys
Notes on print/mount - 'Yambu bla gang' (in pencil) is written on the reverse of the print in Richardson's hand and 'Velox' in an oval is stamped in black. [KC 12/6/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Notes in negative index - Folio 46. 'do' [Yum bu bla mkhar]. [KC 15/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [nos] 42-6, 'Yum-bu bla-mkhar (Bla-sgang) Yam-bu gla sgang. Reputedly earliest palace of Tibetan kings. See Mkhyen Brtse p. 125. n.44. The building, apparently at one time a castle with a watch tower was converted into a sort of chapel' [KC 17/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - [Hugh Richardson in conversation with Paddy Booz; see PRM Related Documents File] 'Yumbulhakhang, Yumbulagang, see Schaefr and Kock (Koch).'
Other Information - Setting: Richardson describes this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 319. "Further south [of Khra 'brug in the Yarlung valley] is Yum-bu Bla-mkhar (1949), the ancient palace of the Tibetan kings, prominent on a rocky hill. It is a narrow rectangular building with a slender white tower topped by a gilded rgya-phibs canopy. By tradition it was founded by the mythical king Nya-khri Btsan-po and it is associated, rather more possibly , with king Tho-tho-ri who may be placed tentatively in the middle of the fifth century. Legend has it that in his reign the first Buddhist books fell from heaven onto the roof of the palace, though they could not be understoood at the time. The story gives sanctity to the building which, which is approached by a narrow path up a steep hill and entered through a low door beyond which a steep ladder leads to the first floor. ..."
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"The ancient palace of Yumbu Lakhar in Yarlung"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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