IDNO

P.97424.WIL

Description

On Cech’s list describing prints:
“(Photos 115-120 were taken at Tashilhunpo monastery)
119. “Scenes at Tashilhunpo Monastery, 4.7.34”
For a description of the Williamsons’ visit to Tashilhunpo see MPOW: 158, 160-162
119m. “Head of image of Gyawa Champa about 70 feet high 5.7.34 (Peggy). There are mainly butter lamp offerings in front of the image. “... one of the minor wonders of the world: a colossal statue of Maitreya, the Coming Buddha, some 70 to 80 feet high. It has been commissioned by the present exiled Panchen Lama and no less than nine flights of steps went up past it to the roof.” MPOW: 162.” [printed text]
For more information see Cech’s list.

Place

C Asia; Tibet; Shigatse Region; Tashilhunpo

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Williamson, Margaret

Collector / Expedition

Date

5 July 1934

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]