Black and white photograph of tapered structure surrounded at base by registers of decoration and deity statues

Detail of Second Tashi Gomang

Location
Densatil Monastery, U region, central Tibet (present-day TAR, China)

Date
erected from 1360 for Drakpa Gyeltsen

Creator
Pietro Francesco Mele (Italian, born ca. 1924)

Material
gelatin silver print, 1948

Collection
Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich; VMZ-402-00-0513

Photo Credit
photograph courtesy Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich

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