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Lot Essay
This damask weave scarf is luxuriously woven in the centre with syllables of the Kalachakra mantra poised on a lotus base, flanked by a pair of five-clawed dragons, with flaming pearls beneath each paw, between pairs of dragons and phoenix above and below, with the Eight Buddhist Emblems and other precious objects in between. There is a Tibetan inscription woven on the top, and another on the bottom, which can be loosely translated as follows,
Top:
Prayer sloka (verse) dedicated to the founder of Yellow Hat Gelugpa Sect, Lama Tsongkhapa,
The last two verses say,
Tsongkhapa, more than victorious one the Boddhisatva,
May his morality radiate to all three worlds.
Bottom:
May the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa flourished,
The assembled collection of teachings stands unimpaired,
By long-loved omniscient bodhisattvas.
May we attain the ten-level wisdom of enlightenment,
Like Manjusri Bodhisattva, with all-encompassing wisdom.
Long live the emperor, the appointed king,
By his leadership, like a brightened day,
May happiness and peace prevail widely to all sentient beings.
The content of the inscriptions suggests that the present scarf could have been a gift presented by a high-ranking lama of the Gelugpa Sect, possibly the Dalai Lam himself, to the Qing Emperor.
Top:
Prayer sloka (verse) dedicated to the founder of Yellow Hat Gelugpa Sect, Lama Tsongkhapa,
The last two verses say,
Tsongkhapa, more than victorious one the Boddhisatva,
May his morality radiate to all three worlds.
Bottom:
May the teachings of Lama Tsongkhapa flourished,
The assembled collection of teachings stands unimpaired,
By long-loved omniscient bodhisattvas.
May we attain the ten-level wisdom of enlightenment,
Like Manjusri Bodhisattva, with all-encompassing wisdom.
Long live the emperor, the appointed king,
By his leadership, like a brightened day,
May happiness and peace prevail widely to all sentient beings.
The content of the inscriptions suggests that the present scarf could have been a gift presented by a high-ranking lama of the Gelugpa Sect, possibly the Dalai Lam himself, to the Qing Emperor.