Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Architecture - Monastery

མཆོད་རྟེན། ཁང་བཟོ་རིག་པ། 建筑学
(item no. 95143)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1900 - 1959
Lineages Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Paper
Collection American Museum of Natural History
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Object/Concept

Interpretation / Description

Shigatse, Tashi Lhunpo Cityscape.

(Also see the two maps, The Grand Monastery of Tashi-Lhunpo and the Town of Shigatse, The Jong or Fort of Shigatse, published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1902).

Jeff Watt 5-2009

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