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ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་བསོད་ནམས་
Jamgön Amnye Zhab Ngawang Kunga Sonam(1597 - 1659/1660)

Jamyang Amnye Zhab Ngawang Kunga Sonam, who served as the twenty-eighth Sakya Trichen, was a disciple of Muchen Sanggye Gyeltsen. He was a prolific author, composing over seven hundred titles, among them famous histories of the Khon family, the Lamdre lineage, the Kadampa lineage, and of tantric teachings at the center of the Sakya traditions including the Kālacakra, Cakrasaṃvara, Guhyasamāja, Yamāntaka, and Mahākāla. He was fully ordained in his youth but returned his vows after being enthroned in order to take a wife and produce an heir for the Khon family. He took an active role in negotiating the end to conflicts both between Tibet and Bhutan and among Bhutanese factions.

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Text People Deity/Cycle/Genre Total pages Folios
མི་འཁྲུགས་པའི་དབང་བསྐུར་བརྒྱ་རྩ་གྲངས་གསོག་བྱ་ཚུལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 11, 262-263.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Deity: rdo rje mi 'khrugs pa
Genre: Empowerment Ritual - dbang chog - dbang skur
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