Rinchen Namgyal Lachungpa blowing a gyaling,Lachung,Sikkim,November 1971

Title: [Rinchen Namgyal Lachungpa blowing a gyaling in front of altar in his home, Lachung, Sikkim]
Creator(s): Kandell, Alice S., photographer
Date Created/Published: [1971 November]
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Slide used for the presentation: 'A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim' by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Webcast available at: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4912
Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
Also represented in LOT 14034-1, pg. no. 002 (color reference copy).
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
Related photograph published in : Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kandell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971, p. [110], where image appears with the caption 'Rinchen Lachungpa blowing a khangling turmpet made from a virgin's thighbone.'
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Subjects:
Lachungpa, Rinchen Namgyal.
Gyalings--India--Lachung--1970-1980.
Men--India--Lachung--1970-1980.
Altars--India--Lachung--1970-1980.
Portrait photographs--1970-1980.
Slides--Color--1970-1980.
Bookmark /2011646269/
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