IDNO

P.97099.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(136-150 where taken en route for Gyantse)
143. “Samding monastery from West 8.10.33 (Peggy)”
See gi: Samding
A mani-wall in the foreground and a chorten centre R. (see GTH: mani-wall; chorten).” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Samding

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

8 October 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]

A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim with the descriptive label: “Sanding [Samding] Monastery was founded in the fourteenth century, destroyed in 1959 during the Cultural Revolution, and rebuilt in the 1980s. The monastery is renowned for being headed by the only female incarnate lama in Tibet, Dorje Phagmo. A mani-wall and chorten can be seen in the foreground.” [Alex Nadin 09/12/02]