Period:Unknown Production date:3 September 1936
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Subjects:reading/writing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; A lama doctor, or amchi, reading religious texts outside a sick man’s tent. Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text. The texts are bound with a leather strap. This photograph was taken in the hospital camp set up by the British Mission doctor, Dr Morgan, in the grounds of the Dekyi Lingka. The tent style is distinctively non-Tibetan and the amchi is supporting his texts upon a package crate
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![图片[1]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.90-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00623143_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-photographic print(black and white); album BM-1986-0313-0.1.90-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Rare books/mid_00043088_001.jpg)
Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
Materials:paper
Technique:gelatin silver printing
Subjects:reading/writing
Description:
Photograph (black and white) from an album; A lama doctor, or amchi, reading religious texts outside a sick man’s tent. Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text. The texts are bound with a leather strap. This photograph was taken in the hospital camp set up by the British Mission doctor, Dr Morgan, in the grounds of the Dekyi Lingka. The tent style is distinctively non-Tibetan and the amchi is supporting his texts upon a package crate
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Comments:From an album of 238 prints. Album is bound in leather and fabric with “LHASA 1936.” embossed on the front cover. See also http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk.
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