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[High above Singhik, monks sound welcome at Tensung Gompa]
Summary
Photograph shows monks playing horns, drum and gong, standing next to building and prayer flags, Tensung monastery, Sikkim.
Title from: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 112.
Photographer's stamp on back of print.
Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).
Published in: Mountaintop kingdom: Sikkim / photos by Alice S. Kandell; text by Charlotte Y. Salisbury. New York : Norton, 1971, p. 112.
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Date
01/01/1965
Contributors
Kandell, Alice S., photographer
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Source
Library of Congress
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