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Lot 619

A VERY RARE TIBETAN TRAVEL PE RMIT ISSUE D BY THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA , QING DYNASTY,
YONGZHENG PE RIOD, DATED EARTH-BIRD YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1729
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A VERY RARE TIBETAN TRAVEL PERMIT ISSUED BY THE SEVENTH DALAI LAMA
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD, DATED EARTH-BIRD YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1729
清雍正土雞年（1729年） 七世達賴喇嘛文告

finely written in Tibetan and Mongolian, the Tibetan fluently calligraphed in drutsa script reading horizontally, accompanied
by the Mongolian written beneath, impressed with two cinnabar seals, the gyatam seal in phags-pa script, the sertam seal in
Chinese, Tibetan, Manchurian, and Mongolian translating to 'Seal of the Dalai Lama, the All-knowing Vajradhara, the Victorious
One over the highest pure realms in the west, Holder of the complete teaching of the Buddha on earth', between finely
painted depictions of Tsongkhapa flanked by the Fourth Panchen Lama Lobsang Chökyi Gyeltsen and the First Dalai Lama Gedun
Drup in the upper register, and Yama Dharmarāja and his consort Cāmuṇḍa, Six-armed Mahākāla, and Śrimatī Pārvati Rājñī in the
lower register, all against a yellow silk ground decorated with dragon roundels, beribboned precious emblems and cloud wisps

印文（其一）：
西天大善自在佛所領天下釋教普通瓦赤拉呾喇達賴喇嘛之印

Height 65¾ in., 167 cm; Width 27½ in., 70 cm

Provenance
Swiss Private Collection.

來源

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 178/435