Jamgon AmeshabJamgon Ameshab (Ngawang Kunga Sonam) (1597-1659) was the twenty-seventh Sakya Trizin. Although his religious name is Ngawang Kunga Sonam, he is better known by the respectful epithet Jamgon Ameshab due to his calm and dignified manner. Intensively trined 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. Read More Read Less