Part 5 of a seven-part interview record. The Library of Congress catalogue describes recollections of monastic life, tailoring, and work in Lhasa. Read or listen at the original archive for the testimony and its context.

Tibetan audio at source · English transcript at source

These are catalogue entries for testimony held elsewhere. No community-contributed stories have been published here yet.

Trace the evidence

Maps, images, and original sources.

map · 1923–1924Map of LhasaPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford photograph · 1920–1921Wife of a lay official in Lhasa dressPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford photograph · 1920–1921Nyingma monkPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford photograph · 1920–1921Buriat Lama and Tibetan Postmaster GeneralPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford collection · Catalogue published 2006Maps and places in The Tibet AlbumPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / British Museum oral history · Recorded 1993Samden & Tshe Tashi · Part 5Library of Congress, Asian Division collection · Multiple recording datesTibetan Oral History Archive ProjectLibrary of Congress, Asian Division reference · 2023 hosted appendixMaps of the Tibetic areaCNRS · LACITO reference · Contemporary reference; not a historical surveyLhasa geographic referenceOpenStreetMap contributors

photograph · 1938A market in Lhasa, 1938Bundesarchiv

map · 1906Tibet and the surrounding regions, 1906Royal Geographical Society

A note on names and place

Approximate city location from OpenStreetMap Wiki. Not an interview location, birthplace, historic building, or surveyed boundary.

The Tibetan place label is copied from the referenced name record (external site, opens in a new tab). It has not been independently language-reviewed by Tibet Archive. Historic photographs retain their source’s descriptions and uncertainties.