modation by the Emperor. After some months' stay, he left Peking in the 2nd month of the 10th year (1653), and was accompanied by the Emperor as far as the 德壽寺 in the 南苑. In 代噶, as the 東華錄 says, he was presented by the Emperor with a golden tablet and seal, through 碩塞親王, who, with a guard of Manchu soldiers, was attached to his escort. In the inscription on the tablet he was designated by the Emperor as the "Very Virtuous, Happy Buddha of the Western Heaven and Supreme Leader of all Buddhists under Heaven, the Holder of the Diamond Sceptre of the Universe, Dalai Lama"
(西天大善自在佛所領天下釋教普通瓦赤喇怛喇達賴喇嘛 Hsi T‘ien Ta Shan Tzu Tsai Fo So Ling T‘ien Hsia Shih Chiao P‘u T‘ung Wa Chih-La-T‘an-T‘an-La Ta Lai Lama)[1]
The visit of this Dalai is likewise mentioned in another inscription in the Yellow Temple. (世祖章皇帝定鼎自燕荒徼景附達賴喇嘛在國初導諸藩傾心歸命其功最鉅至順治九年來朝京師)
- ↑ This seems to be Koeppens "Vadschradhara Bodhisattva (vide his Lamaische Hierarchie und Kirche" p. 1671) Vadjra the diamond club, sceptre, emblem of Buddha's power over evil (Eitel).
