Novice monk in the Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Tawang

Material Information

Title:
Novice monk in the Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Tawang
Creator:
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( Photographer )
Furer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 ( contributor )
Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
[S.l.]
Publisher:
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Language:
English
Materials:
Photographic film: 35 mm B&W negative, Ilford : Fine Grain FP4 ( medium )

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Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1909-1995) was born and educated in Vienna, gaining a PhD in anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1931. A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation enabled him to study at the London School of Economics, under the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. In 1936, he went to the Naga Hills in northeast India for his first fieldwork; over the next four decades, he worked extensively in south & central India, northeast India and Nepal. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Anthropology at SOAS, where he established the Department of Anthropology. During his career, he published seventeen books, most of them ethnographies of tribal cultures. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1975-77) and a pioneer in the field of visual anthropology.
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This scene was photographed on or approximate to 19800301
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Other designation of photograph: 723/14-14A/Tawang Khova
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Original Container: BW Negatives Box V
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This Monpa man is a novice monk in the famous monastery at Tawang, an important Monpa town not far from the border with Tibet and Bhutan : Nearly all monks and novices at the monastery are Monpas, mostly from Tawang : Boys aged between about six and twelve are admitted to the monastery for training : at age twenty-one, they may become fully-ordained monks : the monastery was founded in the late 17th century by the Fifth Dalai Lama, who helped to spread the Gelukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism among Monpas : Located at about 3,000 metres above sea level, it is one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in South Asia : It continues to be a fully-functioning institution, with several hundred monks and novices : Monpa rituals and beliefs, however, also contain pre-Buddhist and animist elements.
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Haimendorf's reference: 723_14-14A_Tawang Khova
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BW Negatives Box V
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Funded in the United Kingdom by JISC
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SOAS name authority for "Haimendorf, Christoph Von Fürer- (1909-1995); anthropologist" is GB/NNAF/P146323.
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VIAF (name authority) : Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995 : record number 109123273

Record Information

Source Institution:
SOAS, University of London
Holding Location:
Archives and Special Collections
Rights Management:
© 1980, The Estate of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. The Estate is currently (2015) represented by Nicholas Haimendorf, son of Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf. ----- Creative Commons (by-nc-nd). -- This image may be used in accord with Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs.
Resource Identifier:
PP MS 19/6/MON/0058 ( SOAS manuscript number )
723_14-14A_Tawang Khova ( Haimendorf reference )