English: Tibetan Passport for Armenian merchant Master Johannes(I-wang-na) issued in 1688 AD. Engraving published by Thomas Hyde in Historia religionis veterum Persarum(1700). English translation by Csoma de Körös, with modifications by Turrell V. Wylie:

From noble (city) Lhassa, the Wheel of Dharma. — To those that are on the road as far as Arya Desa or India, to noble, ignoble (i.e. strong or weak), monastic communities, lay communities; to residents in forts, stewards, managers of affairs, to Mongols, Tibetans, Turks, and to nomads; to ex-chis (or el-chis, envoys, or public messengers, vakils or ambassadors, &c.) going to and fro ; to keepers and precluders of bye-ways (or short-cuts) ; to the elder (or head) men, subjects, all those charged with the responsibility of civil and military affairs; to all these is ordered (or is made known). These four, guests of Phun-tshogs Lcang-lo-can in Lhassa, white-headed(European fathers of the Catholic faith) I-wang-na-can, after having exchanged their merchandize, going back to their own country, having with them sixteen loads on beasts; wherever they go, always assist them there with whatever (they need), with compulsory horse (transport) as the (principal) example — do not hinder, rob, plunder, et cetera, them; but let them go to and fro in peace.

Thus has been written from the noble Lhassa, the Wheel of Dharma, from the secretariat of both ecclesiastical and civil affairs, in earth-dragon year (in the year of Tibetan calendar, which is 1688 AD). On the day of the month. (These dates are wanting).

Note. — There is no Tibetan joined with them. They have about a man's load of victuals wrapped up in a bundle; with that there has been made an increase (of packages), but let them go in peace.