Young monks at Palkhor Chode

Young monks at Palkhor Chode

BMH.E.81.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

December 31st 1927?

Region

Gyantse > Palkhor Chode

Accession number

BMH.E.81.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 110

A group of young monks in Palkhor Chode monastery in Gyantse. Buildings in the complex can be seen in the background, as can the precinct wall running around the hill above the town. Two beggars are seated against a wall in the lower right of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - 'E81' has been written on the lower right edge of the negative in blue-black ink [MS 31/07/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet E']: 'Monks' [MS 04/05/2006]

Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '81 - Monks inside the main temple complex at Gyantse. In the background is the precinct wall. The building in the immediate background is part of the temple, recognisable because of the red colouring of the upper storey, not made of brick or of stone but of faggots' [MS 29/07/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing December 30th 1927, Gyantse, pages 4-5 [MS 31/07/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: This photograph was probably taken on December 31st 1927. On this day Hopkinson commented in his journal that his ponies had to be rested and “so I went photographing round Gyantse ... some people came up and asked me to go into their house to photo them. ... I was amused to find the walls papered by 1927 Weekly times editions - bought they said at the Fort. Also there was a photo of a Tibetan who’d been to England, got up in cowboy style, with chaps, on a huge artificial horse this shape [line drawing inserted in text]. I also photod [ sic ] some rather jungly Kham-bas, going on pilgrimage from Kham via Lhassa to Shigatse. It took three months they said from Kham to Lhassa, and they expected me to produce the picture immediately I had pressed the button” [A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing December 30th 1927, Gyantse, pages 4-5] [MS 04/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Young monks at Palkhor Chode" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.E.81.1.html>.

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