སྐར་ཅུང། Skar Cung, photograph by Hugh Richardson of his orderly copying the record. (Tibet Album). University of Oxford no. 2001.59.17.60.1
སྐར་ཅུང། Site of the Skar Cung pillar in the process of being cleared, showing parts of the base, with rectangular socket for the pillar proper, and broken portions of the crowning elements.
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| Object ID | TIB1.1.8 |
| Title | སྐར་ཅུང་། Skar Cung pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | TIB1.1.8 |
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| Author | Hugh Richardson |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | རྡོ་རིང་ |
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| Date | late 8th century |
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| Date | The focus of antiquarian attention from the 18th century |
| Place | སྐར་ཅུང། |
| Other modern history | The text was copied in the 18th century by Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang Nor bu. |
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| Date | 1999 |
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| Authority | Charles Manson and Nathan Hill, A Gter Ma of Negatives. H. E. Richardson's Photographic Negatives of Manuscript Copies of Tibetan Imperial Inscriptions Possibly Collected by Rig 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu in the 18th Century CE, Recently Found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in Epigraphic Evidence in the Pre-modern Buddhist World, edited by Kurt Tropper (Wien : Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2014): 83-116. |
| Details | The inscription was reported broken during the Cultural Revolution with fragments preserved in the ནོར་བུ་གླིང་ཀ། Takeuchi (1999) 231-35, see Concordance. |
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