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JOHN CLAUDE WHITE. Ti Rimpochi (The Regent), [Lhasa]. Full-length seated portrait. The caption in Tibet and Lhasa reads: 'Ti Rimpochi, of Galdan Monastery, who has risen from the lowest ranks of the priesthood to be the most learned and revered Dictor of Divinity throughout Tibet, and who now, by virtue of a decree of the Chinese Emperor, is acting as Regent. It was with him that the Dalai Lama left the ecclesiastical seal when he fled, and it was he who affixed this seal, and his own, to the Treaty signed in the Po-ta-la on the 7th September, 1904'. . Tibet (Curzon collection.). c.Sep 1904. Source: Photo 430/53.(82).

JOHN CLAUDE WHITE. Ti Rimpochi (The Regent), [Lhasa]. Full-length seated portrait. The caption in Tibet and Lhasa reads: 'Ti Rimpochi, of Galdan Monastery, who has risen from the lowest ranks of the priesthood to be the most learned and revered Dictor of Divinity throughout Tibet, and who now, by virtue of a decree of the Chinese Emperor, is acting as Regent. It was with him that the Dalai Lama left the ecclesiastical seal when he fled, and it was he who affixed this seal, and his own, to the Treaty signed in the Po-ta-la on the 7th September, 1904'. . Tibet (Curzon collection.). c.Sep 1904. Source: Photo 430/53.(82).
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Ti Rimpochi (The Regent), [Lhasa]. Full-length seated portrait. The caption in Tibet and Lhasa reads: 'Ti Rimpochi, of Galdan Monastery, who has risen from the lowest ranks of the priesthood to be the most learned and revered Dictor of Divinity throughout Tibet, and who now, by virtue of a decree of the Chinese Emperor, is acting as Regent. It was with him that the Dalai Lama left the ecclesiastical seal when he fled, and it was he who affixed this seal, and his own, to the Treaty signed in the Po-ta-la on the 7th September, 1904'. . Tibet (Curzon collection.). c.Sep 1904. Source: Photo 430/53.(82).
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4606 x 5569 px | 73.4 MB
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39.0 x 47.2 cm | 15.4 x 18.6 in (300 dpi)