Author Description

Collected works of Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Peljor (1704-1788; a.k.a. Sumpa Pandita Sum-pa Paṇḍita), a Tibetan Buddhist lama of Mongolian heritage, who was born in Amdo (Tib. A-mdo) or present-day Qinghai Province and is most closly associated with the Gelukpa monastery Gonlung Jampa Ling (dgon lung byams pa gling) and Drepung Monastery in Lhasa; his writings include texts on Buddhist philosophy, lam-rim, madhyamaka, Sanskrit, grammar, Pramāṇa, the art of making statues and thangka painting, medicine, astrology, poetics, correspondence, and most famously, his two religious histories: Dpag bsam ljon bzang and Mtsho sngon gyi lo rgyus.