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The Kremlin in commotion - or - the Grand Lama sick of the horn cholic, British Cartoon Print

Print shows King George IV fallen to the floor, he clutches his stomach, near him are a "Plan for Divorce," a decanter and cup, cards and dice. In the background sits his estranged wife Caroline about to be cro More

Peking, gate of Lama temple. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Photograph shows two Chinese men standing in front of a p'ai-lou. Photograph possibly by Sanshichirō Yamamoto.

Dalai Lama of Tibet - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933), the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Gen More

Dalai Lama of Tibet - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933), the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

The beautiful Lama Temple Arch, Peking, China

Lama priest at the Tung-ho Kung, the Great Lama Temple, Peking, China

H7975 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A bronze urn in the court of the Lama Temple. Peking, China

H24403 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 41. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alpaca (Lama pacos) from S. America, in the zoo, Lincoln Park, Chicago, U.S.A

Bronze lion in the courtyard of the Lama Temple, Peking, China

Select the prayer and turn the wheel -- Lama priests at the Lama Temple, Peking, China

H96534 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4468. Public domain photograph of a landmark building, world heritage site, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lama with headdress and Caucasian man seated in front of nine boys and men, Tibet]

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

World's Fair. Lama Temple - Gottscho Schleisner collection

Job and item titles devised. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Icon World's Fair. Lama Temple, public domain photograph

Public domain photograph of temple building, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The New York World's Fair was a large international exposition held in New More

[Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa Lama, full-length portrait, seated, at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 150 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Lepcha farmer at home in a Lepcha tribe house, animals live downstairs, family upstairs

Photograph shows Shinglay Lama standing outside his farmhouse with a goat, Singhik, Sikkim. Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photogr More

[Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the 16th Karmapa Lama, seated, with a monk, at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim]

Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 002 (color reference copy). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Karmapa Lama, religious leader of Sikkim

Photograph shows the sixteenth Karmapa Lama, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924-1981). "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of More

Portrait photo of Khentse Rinpoche [i.e., Jamyang Khyentse]

Photograph shows Jamyang Khyentse (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche), a young lama, seated behind a table, Sikkim. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Con More

[The sixteenth Karmapa Lama (Rangjung Rigpe Dorje), with monk, at Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim]

Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Reincarnation of a holy lama takes a break from his reading. He holds a prayer book covered in wood

Photograph shows young boy holding prayer book, looking out from behind a curtain, Sikkim. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandel More

Beautiful monastery, Sikkim - Public domain historic place photograph

Photograph shows head lama standing in doorway of Pemayangtse monastery, Sikkim. Related photograph in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Nort More

[Shinglay Lama turning giant prayer wheel]

Title from: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 153. Photographer's stamp on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell More

The King & Queen attend a ceremony in the Palace, swearing in a new cabinet minister. A holy lama summons the dieties [i.e., deities]

Photograph shows King Palden Thondup Namgyal and Queen Hope Cooke at a swearing-in ceremony for a new minister of education, with a lama and his consort, at the palace in Gangtok, Sikkim. Caption on related ph More

Traditional religious offering to High Lama

Photograph shows a monk carrying offering, possibly a butter sculpture. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). Also represented in LOT 14034-2, pg. no. 004 More

[Karmapa Lama's successor studying penmanship, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

Lama and prayer wheel / Alice S. Kandell.

Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106). Photographer's stamp on back of print. "© Alice Kandell" written on back of print. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Li More

Lama turning prayer wheel activating prayers

Photograph shows a Shinglay Lama seated on ground, turning a large prayer wheel, Sikkim. (Source: related image in LOT 14032-1, no. 041). Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs ( More

[Lama in meditation, Sikkim] - Public domain portrait photograph

Buddhist monk holding prayer beads, with dog, Sikkim. Title from : Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 92-93. "A Tour of the Los More

[Exterior of Pemayangtse Monastery with prayer flags, Sikkim]

Title devised by Library staff. Related photograph in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 96, where image appears with caption More

[Black Hat Lama throwing religious sacrifice into fire to destroy evil for the New Year, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

[Black Hat Lama and men with offerings at New Year's ceremony, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in : Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kandell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971, p. 35. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photograph More

[Shinglay Lama and grandchildren sit in haystack near Singhik,Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 87, where image appears with caption "Shinglay Lama and gra More

[Black Hat Lama in a procession down the mountain to sacrifice objects, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

[Shinglay Lama looking out of farmhouse near Singhik, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

Ceremonial masked lama dancer, photo by Alice S. Kandell

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

[High Lama reads from Buddhist texts in religious ceremony at the Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple) prior to the New Year's dance, Gangtok, Sikkim]

Lama boys with Gyalings (horns) of silver and goi[?] wood, Sikkim

Date from information for related slide: LC-KAN-0087. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Col More

[Lama ringing bell to begin New Year's ceremony, Gangtok, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 82-83, where image appears with caption "Lamas chant praye More

[Lama displaying brocaded robe and masks for the New Year's ceremony at the Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple), Gangtok, Sikkim]

[Black Hat Lama preparing for religious sacrifice at the New Year's ceremony, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More

[Shinglay Lama beating on large drum near Singhik, Sikkim]

Related photograph published in : Sikkim; the hidden kingdom / text and photos. by Alice Kandell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1971, p. 26. "A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Ho More

[High Lama and monks at Tsuklakhang Main Temple (Palace Temple) preparing for new year dances and ceremonies, Gangtok, Sikkim]

"A Tour of the Lost Kingdom: Sikkim" by Dr. Alice S. Kandell and Hope Cooke, Library of Congress, March 13, 2010. Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress). More