Seal of Dalai Lama, Qing Dynasty,gold seal with a lion knob, 11.5 cm high, seal surface: 14.2 cm long, 13.8 wide

This gold seal was presented to the Thirteenth Dalai Lama by Tibetan religious and secular believers in 1990. In 1904, when the British troops invaded Lhasa, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama Thub-bstan-rgya-mtsho left for the interior and arrived in Inner Mongolia via qinghai and Gansu. Then he went to Beijing via Shanxi to pay homage to Emperor Guangxu and Emperess Dowager Cixi. In 1909, he returned Lhasa. In order to greet his return, Tibetan religious and secular believers donated money to cast this gold seal and presented it to him. Tibetan inscriptions on the seal read: "Seal to Spokesman of Buddha's Words, Master in the Three Realms, Benevolent Leader of Buddhism, Knowledgeable Lama, Wish-fulfilling King Worshipped by All People". The inscriptions in Sanskrit and in the vPhags-pa script are same in meaning .