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Tibet v roce 1956: Unikátní fotografické svědectví Augustina Paláta
| Title in English | Tibet in 1956: the unique photographic testimony of Augustin Palat |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the photographic estate of A. Palát, which is in the kind care of the Czech-Chinese Society, one can find about three hundred and fifty black and white negatives in the 6 x 6 cm format taken by this eminent Czech sinologist during his first and last trip to Tibet in September-October 1956. As an interpreter and representative of the Czechoslovak diplomacy, he took part in a car expedition to Lhasa, which consisted of three Tatra 111 trucks, two Praga V3S and one Jawa 250 motorcycle. About a third of the surviving negatives are unique visual testimonies, including documentation of the three highest representatives of Tibetan Buddhism (the 14th Dalai Lama, the 10th Panchen Lama and the 11th Panchen Lama). Phagpalha), exteriors and partly interiors of the most sacred temple in Lhasa, Jokhang, the markets at Barkhor, Tashilhünpo Monastery, the town of Zhigatse, as well as events such as the secular celebrations of October 1 in Lhasa, the state of the Tibetan army, the construction of the building of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region, etc. The paper will focus mainly on the never published photographs; by comparing them with other visual sources of Czech and foreign origin from that time, the significance and uniqueness of Palat's twenty or so photographs will stand out, which are also very useful in the world context and serve to gain a deeper understanding of Tibet as it looked a few years before the fateful turning point in 1959. In the photographic estate of A. Palát, which is in the kind care of the Czech-Chinese Society, one can find about three hundred and fifty black and white negatives in the 6 x 6 cm format taken by this eminent Czech sinologist during his first and last trip to Tibet in September-October 1956. As an interpreter and representative of the Czechoslovak diplomacy, he took part in a car expedition to Lhasa, which consisted of three Tatra 111 trucks, two Praga V3S and one Jawa 250 motorcycle. About a third of the surviving negatives are unique visual testimonies, including documentation of the three highest representatives of Tibetan Buddhism (the 14th Dalai Lama, the 10th Panchen Lama and the 11th Panchen Lama). Phagpalha), exteriors and partly interiors of the most sacred temple in Lhasa, Jokhang, the markets at Barkhor, Tashilhünpo Monastery, the town of Zhigatse, as well as events such as the secular celebrations of October 1 in Lhasa, the state of the Tibetan army, the construction of the building of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region, etc. The paper will focus mainly on the never published photographs; by comparing them with other visual sources of Czech and foreign origin from that time, the significance and uniqueness of Palat's twenty or so photographs will stand out, which are also very useful in the world context and serve to gain a deeper understanding of Tibet as it looked a few years before the fateful turning point in 1959. |
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