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2001.59.15.54.3 (Print)
2001.59.15.54.3 (Print)
Hugh E. Richardson
Hugh Richardson
1949
Yarlung Valley Region > Tsenthang Yu'i lhakhang
2001.59.15.54.3
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 - 'Tsenden Yu or Btsan-thang g-yu lhakhang' (in pencil) is written on the reverse of 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 53. 'do' BTSAN THANG G.YU'I LHAKHANG'. [KC 15/5/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Handlist, Negative book '9' 'Drikhung, Chongye etc.' [no] 52, [53] 'Btsan-thang g.yu'i lha-khang, another early foundation near Khra-'brug. See Mkhyen-brtse p 128 note 278' [KC 17/5/2006]
Other Information - History: Richardson discusses this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth' London, Serindia Publications, 1998, p.
296. "Other religious foundations attributed to Khri Srong-lde-btsan include the Btsan-thang G.yu'i Lha-khang in Yar-lung, a smaller version of the great temple of Khra-'brug but not comparable with it in prestige or wealth. The chief image was Rnam-par snang-mdzad as in the majority of temples of this period. Nearby there ws a small chapel of Avolokiteshvara with a thousand arms and a thousand eyes, and the Tshes-chu bum-pa, a large white mchod-rten - the Vase of Eternal Life - built to contain a crystal image from India given to Padmasambhava. It is said that water pours from it on the fifteenth day of each month." Also, "Nearby [to Tshes-bcu Bum-pa] is the little Btsan-thang G.yu'i Lha-khang (1949), which owes its name to its rooflet covered with turquoise-blue tiles. Its foundation is attributed to one of Khri Srong-lde-brtsan's queens. It has some resemblance to the Ra-mo-che in design, though much smaller. ... The roof was supported by a wooden lantern construction like that of the top storey of the Bsam-yas dbu-rtse ." (p. 319)
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Tsenthang Yu'i lhakhang in the Yarlung valley"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
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