IDNO

P.96985.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(58-135 where taken in Lhasa.)
78. “Main entrance to the Chö-khang 25.8.33”
Groups of pilgrims are seen in the foreground.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

The main entrance to the Jokhang (Chö-khang). In the foreground there are two groups of pilgrims, one to the left, and the other to the right with their horses.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Lhasa; Jokhang [Chö-khang]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Frederick

Collector / Expedition

Date

25 August 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Transcription: The transcription of this album by Mark Turin and Sara Shneiderman was carried out with reference to Krystina Cech’s catalogue list alone. Alex Nadin has since revised their cataloguing by systematically matching their records to the images. Margaret Williamson’s handwritten captions for photographs have now been transcribed into the Inscription field, and Cech’s descriptions appear in the Description field. Correct entries for Place, Named Person and Other Nos. have also been entered by Alex Nadin. [Sudeshna Guha 29/10/2002]

Exhibition: The album page with this print was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim with the descriptive label: “One of the Williamson albums containing photographs of their time in Tibet. The open pages containing images of Lhasa including Cho-khang, the main temple, and various street scenes. View of the Himalayas and the Potala, palace of the Dalai Lama, can be seen in the distance.” [Alex Nadin 09/12/02]

Place: Jokhang is “Situated at the heart of old Lhasa town, the Jokhang is Tibet's most sacred shrine. Founded by Queen Bhrikuti, the Nepalese consort of King Songtsen Gampo, on the site of the Othang lake, it was completed in 647 CE. It houses a number of important images which are the object of devotion of thousands of Tibetan devotees who come every year to pay their homages. Features very importantly in the New Year celebrations that are visually documented in the photographs taken by Hugh Richardson [held at the Pitt Rivers Museum].” [Info Source: Pitt Rivers Museum, Visual Tibet, http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/glossary, JD 28/7/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Caspian James 20/8/2008]