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  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Japanese funeral customs: the coffin, enclosed in a palanquin lies in the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cremation is carried out under a wooden awning. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
  • Japanese funeral customs: outside the dead man's house. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Birch bark MS from Kashmir of the Rupavatra
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a seated monk and a boy wearing regalia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a seated monk and a boy wearing regalia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège proceeds towards the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • Japanese funeral customs: the cortège leaves the dead man's house for the temple. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A barber cutting a boy's hair at a Buddhist monastery in Burma. Halftone after a photograph by R. Grant Brown.
  • Two Buddhist elders: sBed-byed (Gopaka), holding a book (above); Mi-phyed (Abheda), holding a reliquary (below). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Mandala of black and white Mahākālas. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.