The Architecture of the Medical College on Chakpori, Lhasa

Fig. 18:
Potala Palace seen from the Medical College on Chakpori

Two monks blowing horns on the canopy over the main entrance to the prayer hall
Photograph by F. Spencer Chapman
1937

This remarkable photo shows in addition to details of the roof of the Medical College some of the small houses for doctors at the foot of the hill near the western gate to Lhasa. The small top to the right in the photo, where a bonfire is burning, is the place where now a water tank is located and from where one earlier (in the 1980's and 1990's) could get a fine view of Potala and the town. Like the rest of the hill it is now fenced off.

From the book: Knud Larsen and Amund Sinding-Larsen, The Lhasa Atlas. Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape (London : Serindia Publications, 2001), 96.