The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage

“The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage: Volume 2 represents a significant contribution to the study of Tibetan Buddhist intellectual and religious history. As both a primary historical source and a work of interpretive significance, this book will be of interest to scholars of Tibetan studies, Buddhist studies, and Himalayan history, as well as to practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the lineage’s doctrinal and institutional foundations. This translation makes an important corpus of Tibetan historical literature accessible to a wider audience and underscores the enduring relevance of the Sakya tradition’s synthesis of scholarship, practice, and ethical responsibility.”–His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Sakya
“This second and final volume of Jamgön Ameshab’s The Amazing Treasury of the Sakya Lineage continues the story of the marvelous Khön family of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism up through the middle of the seventeenth century. Brief biographical studies of many great masters, such as Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen, Dakchen Lodrö Gyaltsen, and the author’s grandfather, Ngakchang Kunga Rinchen, are available here in English for the first time, thanks to the skillful translation of Khenpo Kunga Sherab and Matthew King. These two books are a wonderful treasure for anyone interested in Tibetan Buddhism.”–Cyrus Stearns, translator of Taking the Result as the Path: Core Teachings of the Sakya Lamdré Tradition

Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga Sonam

Ameshab Ngakwang Kunga Sonam (1597-1659) was the twenty-seventh throne holder of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Ordained as a monk around 1618, he undertook extensive scholastic study. After the death of his father and brother, Ameshab returned his vows and was enthroned as Sakya Trizin in 1620. He widely promoted the Sakya tradition and mediated peace amid rising military conflict in Central Tibet. A historian, Ameshab wrote impactful histories of the Sakya school, the Lamdré tradition, and the Hevajra Tantra.

Khenpo Kunga Sherab

Khenpo Kunga Sherab is a monastic scholar and teacher from Lhoka, Tibet. He is the author of several studies in Tibetan on Abhidharma and Middle Way philosophy. Khenpo has extensive experience teaching Buddhist meditation and philosophy in various settings, including traditional Tibetan monastic colleges, interfaith institutes, Dharma centers across North America and Asia, and university classrooms. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto. Since 2017, he has served as a Buddhist chaplain in four major prisons in southwestern Ontario, Canada.

Matthew W. King

Matthew W. King is professor of transnational Buddhism at the University of California, Riverside. A historian of Inner Asian Buddhism, his published work has focused on scholastic and tantric engagements with the Mongol Empire, biomedical modernity, the Qing Empire, humanism and Orientalism, and socialist state repression. His first book, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire, won several awards, including the American Academy of Religion’s 2020 award for Best Book in Textual Study. His most recent book is In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Record of Buddhist Kingdoms.

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