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View of Gyantse showing Kumbum, the great chorten and the Palkor Chode Monastery, as seen...

View of Gyantse showing Kumbum, the great chorten and the Palkor Chode Monastery, as seen from the dzong or fo
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View of Gyantse showing Kumbum, the great chorten and the Palkor Chode Monastery, as seen from the dzong or fort, Tibet, 15th August 1936 (gelatin silver print)
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Chapman, Frederick Spencer (1907-71) / British
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Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
Medium
gelatin silver print
Date
1936 AD (C20th AD)
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The Palcho Monastery or Pelkor Chode Monastery or Shekar Gyantse is the main monastery in the Nyangchu river valley in Gyantse, Gyantse County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, China. political mission, from July 1936 to February 1937, to persuade the Panchen Lama to return from China and establish permanent British representation in Lhasa

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