EditorialTibet. Lhasa. Potala Palace. It was the residence ot the Dalai Lama until 1959. Currently it is a Museum and World Heritage Site. Engraving."China Monumentis", by Atanasio Kirchen. Amsterdam, 1667.
EditorialPutuozongshengmiao, built to resemble Potala Palace in Lhasa. In 1780, the Panchen Lama, spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists, travelled 13 months to Shengde to join the celebrations for the 80th birthday of Emperor Qianlong. He was received in this Tib...
EditorialChinese man in fur hat and fur-trimmed jacket with small boy and a Chinese monk from the Potala monastery (Tibet). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peo...
EditorialWater and Moon (Potala) Guanyin, 900-1100. China, Five dynasties (907-960) - Song dynasty (960-1279). Gilt bronze; overall: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.).
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialThe main square in Lhasa, Tibet, with market booths, modern houses and in background far right, the Red and White Palace of the Potala on the " Red Mountain". View from the roof of Lhasa's Great Temple. Lhasa is 3.600 m above sea level.
EditorialSandalwood statue of Avalokiteshvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion (the equivalent of the Chinese Quinyan), in the Chapel of Lokeshvara, Red Palace of Potala. The statue may still date from roayal times and the earlier palace. See 05-01-02 / 63-70, 05-01-...
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialPotala Palace, Lhasa, from Chakpori Hill. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim. Bell collection. c.1921. 438 prints 125x100mm to 160x115mm Gelatine silver prints, printing-out papers. Photographers: Sir Charles Bell, P. Brown, Johnston and Hoffmann, Dav...
EditorialPotala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?) ‘Inscribed:’ ‘This scene is in the Potala at Lhasa, and in a square called Déyungshurr, bde-hbyun (origin or source of happiness)’ [bde-hbyun- ]. ‘The ceremony here pictured takes place in April on the 15th o...
EditorialWater and Moon (Potala) Guanyin, 900-1100. China, Five dynasties (907-960) - Song dynasty (960-1279). Gilt bronze; overall: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.).
EditorialPotala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?) ‘Inscribed:’ ‘This scene is in the Potala at Lhasa, and in a square called Déyungshurr, bde-hbyun (origin or source of happiness)’ [bde-hbyun- ]. ‘The ceremony here pictured takes place in April on the 15th o...
Editorial'Potala: the descent of the rope'. Inscribed: ‘This represents a dangerous exhibition of a man traversing which takes place at the Potala on the 2nd day of the Lnsur’ [lo-gsar, new year]’ fair. It is called Chungkul-takshur’ [byan-khal-thag-sur...
EditorialWater Serpent Temple (Dzong-gyap Lu-kang) in Lhasa. Gilt finial on top; below this, black yak-hair curtain. It is on a small island. In the foreground are old poplar trees; in the background is the back of the Potala. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim...
EditorialLhasa: the Potala and Jo-Khan. A collection of maps of Tibet and Ladakh, bound in a volume. Watercolour and ink. 1844-1862. Lhasa: the Potala and Jo-Khan. From a collection of maps of Tibet and Ladakh. Source: Add.Or.3013,.
EditorialPotala Palace, Lhasa, from Chakpori Hill. . Photographs of Tibet and Sikkim. Bell collection. c.1921. 438 prints 125x100mm to 160x115mm Gelatine silver prints, printing-out papers. Photographers: Sir Charles Bell, P. Brown, Johnston and Hoffmann, Dav...
EditorialPotala: a Kalacakra ceremony (?) ‘Inscribed:’ ‘This scene is in the Potala at Lhasa, and in a square called Déyungshurr, bde-hbyun (origin or source of happiness)’ [bde-hbyun- ]. ‘The ceremony here pictured takes place in April on the 15th o...
EditorialView from the Potola, shewing Medical College (on hill), [Lhasa]. Distant view of the medical college, or Chakpori temple, seen across the plain on the opposite hill. It lies to the south-west of the Potala. 'Tibet'. Curzon collection. c.Aug 1904. 89 p...
EditorialChinese man in fur hat and fur-trimmed jacket with small boy and a Chinese monk from the Potala monastery (Tibet). Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peo...