IDNO

P.97100.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(136-150 where taken en route for Gyantse)
144. “Dorji Phagmo”
See ww: Dorji Phagmo” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Full-length seated portrait of Samding Monastery’s abbess, Dorji Phagmo, who is revered as the highest female incarnation in Tibet. The abbess wear robes, and sits in front of a wall? painting?, with a bird cage on both sides of her feet. [JD 25/4/2009]

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Yamdrok Tso Region; Samding

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Dorji Phagmo (also spelt Dorje Pagmo, and Dorje Pamo)

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

8 October 1933

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: 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]

MAA Exhibition: A reproduction of this image was displayed in Collected Sights in the section Tibet, Bhutan and Sikkim with the descriptive label: “The eleventh Droje Phagmo (1889-1936/7) and abbess of Samding monastery. Atypically, she belongs to a female reincarnation line. The current, fourteenth Droje Phagmo is both the head of the monastery and the vice-president of the People’s Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region.” [Alex Nadin 09/12/02]

Place: Samding is a town situated east of Nangartse on the Lhasa-Gyantse road, and “is famous for its monastery founded in the 12th century by Khetsun Zhonudrub - the only monastery in Tibet headed by a female incarnation, Dorje Phagmo. [Source: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk, JD 24/4/2009]

Named Person: “The monastery's abbess, Dorje Phagmo, is revered as the highest female incarnation in Tibet.” [Source: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk, JD 24/4/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Williamson Trust. [Jocelyne Dudding 25/4/2009]