The Dalai Lamas - Two Exhibitions at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich

Press Downloads

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Press release exhibition "The 14 Dalai Lamas"

Press release English
Press release I (German)
Press release II (German)

Press release publication

Press release "Die Dalai Lamas" (German)

Press materials exhibition "The 14th Dalai Lama"

www.dalailama-archives.org (link)

Pictures

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	09.jpg (4'752KB; JPEG; 1919x2622px; 24b) download The 14th Dalai Lama, at the age of about 10. Around 1945. Photographer: probably Archibald Steele, © The Tibet Museum / DIIR, Dharamsala.
	1-7 high res 001.jpg ( 6'658KB; JPEG; 4285x7065px; 24b) download The main figure in the upper right corner shows the 4th Dalai Lama, the omniscient Yonten Gyatso (1589-1616). Thangka (scroll). © Collection Veena und Peter Schnell, Zürich.
	Ausschnitt aus 1-7 high res 001.jpg ( 3'989KB; JPEG; 4183x4233px; 24b) download The main figure in the upper right corner shows the 4th Dalai Lama, the omniscient Yonten Gyatso (1589-1616). Detail from a thangka (scroll). © Collection Veena und Peter Schnell, Zürich.
	12.jpg (1'187KB; JPEG; 897x1370; 24b) download The young 14th Dalai Lama on his throne showing the gesture of bestowing teaching. © The Tibet Museum / DIIR, Dharamsala.
	1935.50.1712 bg.tif (1'028KB; TIF(JPG); 2362x3128px; 24b) download Avalokiteshvara, 4-armed, bronze, gold-plated. The Dalai Lamas are considered to be reincarnations of this Bodhisattva. © Museum of Ethnography Stockholm
	57.jpg (9'971KB; JPEG; 7904x4553px; 8b) download The 13th Dalai Lama sitting on a throne. At Norbulingka, around 1932. Photographer: Leslie Weir, © Collection Maybe Jehu, London.
	63.jpg (10'831KB; JPEG; 4630x7943px; 8b) download The 13th Dalai Lama sitting on a throne. At Norbulingka, around 1932. Photographer: Leslie Weir, © Collection Maybe Jehu, London.
	A1 Tibetan Manuscript.tif (2'615KB; TIF(JPG) ; 5436x4235px; 24b) download Manuscript: Description of a ritual, painted around 1665 by order of the 5th Dalai Lama. Ink and pigments on paper. © Collection Thomas Isenberg, NY , Photo: D. James Dee
	HH&hisMother.tif (4'177KB; TIF(JPG); 2472x3644px; 8b) download The 14th Dalai Lama and his mother. In Indian exile, around 1960. © Archives of the Norbulingka Institute, Sidhpur, India.
	HHchildhood.tif (4'294KB; TIF(JPG); 2562x3758px; 8b) download Portrait of the 14. Dalai Lama, aged about 4, at Amdo, around 1939. © Archives of the Norbulingka Institute, Sidhpur, India.
	VMZ400_08_01_266.tif (2'861KB; TIF(JPG); 1965x2000px; 8b) download Surrounded by his highest magistrates, the Dalai Lama receives a Stūpa with an important relic. Dungkhar monastery, beginning of 1951. Photographer: Heinrich Harrer. © Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich (VMZ 400.07.GD.008).
	11_04_DEF.tif (535 KB; TIF(JPG); 496x496px; 32b) download Dharma Wheel. Silver, partly gold-plated, ornamented with crystals, Tibet/Mongolia?, 19th century, gift from the 13th Dalai Lama to Tsar Nikolaus II. of Russia. © The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Inv. Nr.: KO-884).
	12_04.tif (4'119 KB; TIF(JPG); 1299x1890px, 32b) download The 14th Dalai Lama. Bronze, gold-plated, painted face, manufactured 2005 by Rajesh Awale, Hangrib Handicrafts Nepal, Kathmandu. © Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich (Inv. Nr. 23856). Photo: Kathrin Leuenberger.
	15_10.tif (3'303 KB; TIF(JPG); 945x1476px, 32b) download Begtse. Copperplate, polychrome painting, Inner Mongolia. © Folkens Museum Etnografiska, Stockholm (Inv. Nr. 1935.50.2378).
	50_3606.tif (7'296 KB; TIF(JPG); 6600x4884px, 24b) download The 5th Dalai Lama. Bronze, with two long inscriptions written by the 5th Dalai Lama and the person who ordered the statue (Ngawang Sherab), a close friend of the 5th Dalai Lama, Tibet, around 1679. © Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Inv. Nr.: 50-3606).
	5_10.tif (2'084 KB; TIF(JPG); 1752x2280px, 24b) download The 4th Dalai Lama, surrounded by the 2-armed Mahakala (upper left), Sitatapatra (upper middle), and Yamaraja (lower right). On the left probably the Samye monastery. Thangka (scroll), Tibet. © Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich, (Inv. Nr. 14406). Photo: Kathrin Leuenberger
	5_10_Det.tif (8'745 KB; TIF(JPG); 3521x4314px, 24b) download Detail of a Thangka (scroll), showing the 4th Dalai Lama. © Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zürich, (Inv Nr. 14406). Photo: Kathrin Leuenberger
	6_11.tif (4'171 KB; TIF(JPG); 1276x850px, 32b) download The 5th Dalai Lama. Miniature from the secret „visions“ of the 5th Dalai Lama. © Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, Paris.