Historical Documents
It was during Tri Ralpachen’s reign (806-841 A.D) when he invited Indian scholars to work with Tibetan scholars
It was during Tri Ralpachen’s reign (806-841 A.D) when he invited Indian scholars to work with Tibetan scholars, Kawa Paltsek and Chogru Lui Gyaltsen to prepare the first Sanskrit–Tibetan Lexicon,…
The Potala Palace, in lhasa, Tibet was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994
The Potala Palace, in lhasa, Tibet was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994. In 2000 and 2001, Jokhang Temple and Norbulingka were added to the list as…
Facts about the Currency of Independent Tibet
Facts about the Currency of Independent Tibet. In 1792 the Tibetan Government began minting its own coins, Tamka with Tibetan Inscriptions. In 1890 the Tibetan Government first introduced paper currency.…
Facts you should know about the Dalai Lama Seal.
Facts you should know about the Dalai Lama Seal. 1) Ruling lamas affixed their seals to official documents to make them valid. The seals had been given to them in…
In 1909, The 13th Dalai Lama establishes Foreign Bureau
In 1909, The 13th Dalai Lama establishes Foreign Bureau. ༸རྒྱལ་དབང་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་གསུམ་པ་མཆོག་གི་བོད་གཞུང་ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ལས་ཁུངས།
THE 13TH DALAI LAMA SEAL
THE 13TH DALAI LAMA THUBTEN GYATSO OFFICIAL SEAL
The 13th Dalai Lama post card
THE 13TH DALAI LAMA THUBTEN GYATSO Old and rare postcards photographed by CHARLES BELL
OLD LHASA SEAL
OLD LHASA SEAL , OLD LHASSA SEAL OF THE DALAI LAMA, LHASA, TIBET
Tibet’s postal stamps, 1912
By 1912, Tibetan had its own postal system and Stamps , The stamps were bilingual. At the Centre of each stamp is Tibet’s national emblem, the snow lion.