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
Monument. [Z.]
Erected by the living (thirteenth) Dalai Lama near Gah-ldan [Gadan] monastery on the spot where he is supposed to have dedicated some relics of Tson-k'apa [Tsongkhapa].
"Encouraged and protected by the King of Tibet, Tsongk'apa founded the Gelu denomination, and a few miles outside of Lh'asa he erected what is know as Gadan gomba, or the 'the happy lamasery'. His followers were called Gelupa or Gadanba, the first name being now universally used." (p. 84)
Rockhill, W.W. (1891). The land of lamas. New York: Century.
Google Books at: http://books.google.com/books?id=tNkMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq
