ATD: cover: "seal"

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I see only one (blurry, low-rez but still recognizable) snow lion figure on the seal on the cover of ATD. There's two in the image provided by Mr. Morris.

The three mountains: they're all clear enough. I'll guess that there is some reference to Mount Everest and other nearby mountains in the recurrent image of the three mountaintops.

And then there's the rarity/collectibility of certain, let us say, not quite counterfeit but in no way official postage stamps to take into consideration. I'm still interested in the wireless telegraph aspects of the visually related stamps. The three mountain tops with mythical creature(s) in front (or within?) the mountain is on all of the wireless telegraph stamps.

In any case, here's some Tibetian Mythology; at a certain point the hollow earth thread comes into play:

http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/KailasandManasarover.htm
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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>

This image is so close to the book's seal that I suspect it might be its source.  Can anyone translate the words?
 

 http://www.holt.org/familypic/slion01.jpg