1900-1901 Lhasa, Bar Chorten, the Western Gate or Pargo Kaling gateway

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Title	1900-1901 Lhasa, Bar Chorten, the Western Gate or Pargo Kaling gateway
Part of Set	1900-1901 Central Tibet
Notes	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
Date of Photograph	1900/1901
Photographer's Note	Bar chorten. [Z.] A ch'orten [chorten] like gate between Ch'agpori [Chagpori] and Marpori. The view is taken on the way from Lhasa. The larger two-storied house to the right is a private one. From the top of the chorten, wires are stretched to the top of two smaller chortens standing on both sides of the passage; the wires are furnished with small bells. One of the smaller chortens is seen to the left through the branches of a tree. The other small chorten (on the slope of Marpori) is seen on the view of Potala facing p. 166 (Sarat Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet), where also can be seen the private house mentioned above. On the top of the hill (Chagpori) [Chagpori] one can see the Mah-ba Ta-tsan [Man-ba Ta-ts'an or Man-bo-datsang]. Obs. Bar Chorten is called Barkokani on A-K's Plan and Bakokani on Rockhill's Plan l.e. On Waddell's Plan of Lhasa it's called "Gateway of Pargo-Kaling".
Photographer	Tsybikoff, G. Ts., 1873-1930
Description	Churten [chorten] - "This word means 'offering holder'. Great numbers are built in the vicinity of lamaseries, and serve to point out the roads leading to them. They are also something like the stations in the Catholic 'Path to the Cross', as pilgrims, when journeying to a shrine, perform prostrations before each churten met on the way thither." (p.63). Rockhill, W.W. (1891).The land of lamas. New York: Century. Available through Google Books at: http://books.google.com/books?id=tNkMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq
Related Resources	1903 Lhasa and Central Tibet by G. Ts. Tsybikoff available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,66 1878 A-K's Plan of Lhasa available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,107 1891 Rockhill's Plan of Lhasa available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,108 1904 Waddell's Plan of Lhasa available at: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/tibet,110
Subject TGM	Monuments & memorials People Houses Religious communities Buddhism
Continent	Asia
Country	China Tibet (autonomous region)
Region	Central Tibet
City/Place	Lhasa
Type	Image
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library Print Collection. 1900-1901 Central Tibet.
Original Item Size	5.5 x 8.5 in.
Original Item Medium	Photographic prints
Original Item ID	PC 40C 14
Provenance	Acquired by the American Geographical Society from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital ID	pr000190
Date Digitized	2006-07-28
Digital Collection	Tibet - From the Collections of the American Geographical Society Library
Digital Format	Image/jpg
Part of	American Geographical Society Library Digital Photo Archive

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