Creator
Dharmakīrti; commentary by Khedrup Gelek Pelzang.
Title
Dispelling Mental Darkness: An Ornament for the Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition (Tib. tshad ma sde bdun gyi [rgyan yid kyi mun] sel, ཚད་མ་སྡེ་བདུན་གྱི་རྒྱན་ཡིད་ཀྱི་མུན་སེལ).
Coverage
Amdo, Tibet:
Publisher
Kumbum Jampa Ling Monastery,
Date
ca. 1850.
Description
This Buddhist text features no less than seven ownership seals. Yet, owing to their age and wear, they are difficult to decipher. The black color of the seals suggests that they are not modern. The colophon informs readers that woodblocks were cut at Kumbum Jampa Ling Monastery—a location not far from where His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was later born. The seal is stamped three times on both the upper and lower covers—a placement that may constitute a kind of blessing: the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School