The Rashīdī History 215: CHAPTER XCII. · THE KHAN MAKES A HOLY WAR ON TIBET.

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The Holy War is the main support and fortifier of Islam—the most efficient ground-work for the foundations of the Faith . . . . After the Khán's repentance, he had always awaited an opportunity for personally conducting a holy war [ghazát], nor could his hunger and thirst for this exploit be in any way satisfied by merely sending out a ghazát expedition, every year; so at length, in Zulhijja of the year 938 [July 1532] he set out to attack the infidels of Tibet.
As I mentioned above, Tibet is bounded on the north, where it is called Balti, by Balur and Badakhshan; in the direction of winter sunrise of that place is Yarkand, and on the west is Kashmir. Having bidden Iskandar Sultan accompany me, and having deputed me to that country, the Khan himself started (by way of Khotan) for the Altunji of Tibet, which is another name for the Dulpa.