Name: The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 1
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Author: Sonam, Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga ; Sherab, Khenpo Kunga ; King, Matthew W.
ISBN: 9781614299196

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The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 1

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga Sonam

Translated by

Khenpo Kunga Sherab

Matthew W. King

Publisher

Wisdom Publications

Language

English

Pages

394

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm

Weight

1.13 kg.

ISBN13

9781614299196

Synopsis "The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 1"

A lucid and landmark translation that offers an intriguing glimpse into Tibetan history, the Mongol Empire, and the spiritual development and remarkable lives of the early luminaries of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. In this first of two volumes of The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage, translators Khenpo Kunga Sherab and Matthew W. King capture a truly remarkable period in Buddhist and Asian history. Here, Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga Sonam (1597-1659), a member of the Khon aristocracy and the twenty-seventh throne holder of Sakya Monastery, offers a narrative that recounts the lives of numerous iconic leaders of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism during the transformational period between the tenth and fourteenth centuries. This landmark volume reconstructs that long era of religious and political innovation and upheaval through the rise of the Mongol Empire. In this book, you'll see how Sakya Buddhist leaders emerged in this early period as translators, adopters, arbiters, and innovators of newly circulating Indian Buddhist scholastic and tantric cultures. In the thirteenth century, when the Mongol Empire forever transformed medieval Eurasia, leaders of the Sakya school became confidants and tutors to some of its most powerful leaders. The biographies of numerous Sakya luminaries are retold here, like Sakya Pandita and Phakpa Lodro Gyaltsen; along with their Mongol contemporaries, Koden Ejen and Qubilai Qayan, these leaders laid the groundwork for forms of patronage, religious and political sovereignty, scholasticism and tantrism, and righteous rule that would endure for the next eight centuries down to today.

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