The modern Tibetan national flag was adopted in 1916.10 Its first appearance before the world was in National Geographic Magazine’s “Flags of the World” issue of 1934 11 and other publications, and was reproduced in the early thirties in cigarette card collections in Europe.12 The flag was probably too new and unknown to appear in the very first flag issue (1917) of the National Geographic, but Tibet did receive mention in an article on medieval flags in that same issue.13 According to an eminent vexillologist, Professor Lux-Worm, the national flag of Tibet was based on an older 7th century snow lion standard of the Tibetan Emperor, Songtsen Gampo.14 It should be borne in mind that over 90% of the flags of the nations in the UNO were created after WWII, including the present national flag of China.
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