Jamgön Ameshab (Ngawang Kunga Sönam)
Jamgön Ameshab (Ngawang Kunga Sönam) (1597–1659) was the twenty-seventh Sakya Trizin. Although his religious name is Ngawang Kunga Sönam, he is better known by the respectful epithet Jamgön Ameshab due to his calm and dignified manner. Intensively trained in religious studies from childhood, he became throne holder of the Sakya order at the age of twenty-four. A prolific author of over thirty-five volumes of religious texts, he also played an important role as a peacekeeper and mediator between the various warring states and factions of his time.
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Sakya Paṇḍita
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A set of classic biographies of Sakya Paṇḍita—one of Tibet’s greatest scholars and religious masters.
Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) was a renowned Tibetan polymath, scholar, statesman, and religious master, and one of the most famous and consequential figures in the history of Tibet. The three classic biographies included here contain fascinating firsthand accounts of key events in Sakya Paṇḍita’s life, covering his family ancestry, early education, interactions and debates with other sects, travels to Mongolia and his diplomacy at the Mongol court, and a detailed account of the miraculous events that occurred in the last weeks of his life.