A set of 50 photographs and associated handwritten descriptive notes, acquired from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg. The complete notes, "1904 View of Great Tibet", are available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,94
"Still, the Sera monastery is as renowned for its ascetics, who live isolated in their ritods, or cells, plunged into contemplation, as Daibun is renowned for its prophets, or oracles, who foretell the future." (p. 94)
Tsybikoff, G. G. (1904). Journey to Lhasa. The Geographic Journal, 23(1), p. 92-97.
Available at: http://www.jstor.org/view/00167398/ap020133/02a00080/0
