Taiwan 特632 National Palace Museum Southern Branch Opening Exhibitions S/S, MNH

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To celebrate the opening of the southern branch of the National Palace Museum and to publicize its collection of treasured Asian artworks, Chunghwa Post has selected four objects from its opening exhibitions for a set of three stamps and a souvenir sheet.
This souvenir sheet features the top and bottom boards of the sixty-eighth case of the Tibetan Kangyur. The Ch'ing Emperor Kangxi was instructed by his grandmother, the Grand Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, to commission this Tibetan Kangyur. All the folios were transcribed with gold ink and stored separately in 108 cases with gemmed and finely painted boards. Each board was protected by five layers of gold brocades in different colors. When flipping up the brocaded screens of the top board, one may see there are two deities were painted on each side next to the scripts in both Sanskrit and Tibetan read, “Salutation to the Buddha, Salutation to the Dharma, Salutation to the Sangha, and Salutation to the Three Jewels.” Beneath the screens of the bottom board, there were five finely painted different deities.
小全張郵票圖案為「龍藏經」第六十八函之上、下經板。清康熙皇帝為圓祖母孝莊太皇太后的心願，派人以泥金謄寫、製作此部「龍藏經」，總計108函。每函上、下經板均以五層五色經簾保護；掀開經簾，上經板中央以梵、藏文刻寫「頂禮佛、頂禮法、頂禮僧，頂禮三寶」，兩旁彩繪諸佛菩薩，下經板則彩繪5尊護法。