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Title	1900-1901 Lhasa, Potala Palace and Marpori (red mountain) from the west
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	Marpori from a nearer point of view and more from the west. [N.]
Photographer	Norzunoff, O. M.
Description	"Religious worship of the great gods has, the world over, been principally conducted in high places; mountain-tops have ever been their favorite abodes. […] At an early date in the history of Buddhism, the cult of the 'All-Merciful God who looks down and sees the miseries of the world,' the Saviour, Avalokiteshwara became probably the most popular one, and Mount Potala, near the mouth of the river Indus, was held to be his abode. […] In Tibet his worship was, in all likelihood, associated with some mountain form at the earliest days, for legends tell us that when he came to Tibet to bring civilization and salvation to the people, he took up his abode on a hill to the west of the present city of Lhasa, called the Red Hill (Marpo-Ri). Here, in the seventh century, the kings of Tibet built their modest palace, and Lhasa grew at its base."(p.544) Holdich, T. H. (1901). Lhasa. The Geographical Journal, 18(6), 602-607. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/view/00167398/ap020108/02a00050/0
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	Architecture Castles & palaces Mountains Dirt Roads Buddhism Buddhist temples Historic sites Religious communities
Subject LC	Potala (Lhasa, China)
Continent	Asia
Country	China Tibet (autonomous region)
Region	Central Tibet
City/Place	Lhasa
Geographic Feature	Nyainqentanglha Shan (mountains)
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 04
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	pr000180
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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