Ancient wisdom that we can each put into practice in our own daily life! The Dalai Lamas of Tibet, over the past six centuries, have been some of the most influential spiritual figures in the entire world. Few people know how the lineage first began, with the extraordinary Tibetan master named Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He trained the first of the Dalai Lamas, and the world has never been the same. Up until this book, there has never been a complete and detailed story of the life of this extraordinary Buddhist master--one of the most important spiritual figures ever to walk this world. This luscious coffee-table art classic, with hundreds of color plates, includes three different parts: 1) The wonderful story of the discovery of 15 ancient paintings of Tsongkapa's life hidden in the attic of a Mongolian temple in New Jersey, in one of the first Buddhist communities which ever existed in the United States. 2) Color plates of more than 150 scenes from the paintings, with a translation of captions added by Jamyang Shepay Dorje (1648-1721), one of Tibet's greatest writers. 3) A special section on what these paintings mean to each one of us: how we ourselves can put into our personal meditations the amazing lessons found in the ancient paintings. The author, Geshe Michael, has also written the business bestseller The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business & Your Life, which tells the story of how he used ancient Buddhist principles to help found Andin International Diamond Corporation--a Manhattan company which went from zero to $250 million in annual sales, and was bought by super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009. King of the Dharma, an amazing classic of art and wisdom, shows us how to do the same.
About the Author: Geshe Michael Roach is an honors graduate of Princeton University and has received the Presidential Scholar Medallion from the President of the United States at the White House. He is also a recipient of the McConnell Scholarship Prize of Princeton's renowned Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs. Michael is the first westerner in the 600-year history of Sera Mey Tibetan Monastic University to be awarded the degree of Geshe, or "Master of Philosophy." He has also received an honorary doctorate for lifetime achievement in the Congress of Mexico, in 2015. Michael is the founder of the Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP), which has digitally preserved thousands of ancient Asian books by training and equipping poor people in many countries to do input work during the past 33 years. More than 10,000 searchable manuscripts representing 25 centuries of ancient Asian philosophy are now available free, online, at ACIP's website. ACIP was founded during Michael's time at Princeton, with the help of the Hewlett Packard Foundation. To contribute towards the expense of this work, Michael helped found Andin International Diamond Corporation of New York, which reached US$250 million in sales and was sold to super-investor Warren Buffett in 2009. In 2000, Michael wrote The Diamond Cutter, The Buddha on Managing Your Business & Your Life, which has become an international business bestseller, and tells the story of how he used ancient Asian principles for success. He is the author of over 30 other volumes, including the best-selling How Yoga Works. In 2010, he founded the Diamond Cutter Management Training Institute (DCI), which provides management and personal success training to about 35,000 people each year, in more than 20 countries of the world. This was followed in 2016 by the founding of the Sedona College of International Management (SCIM), which trains DCI teachers for about 25 different countries. The college also houses the Mixed Nuts Translation Group, which annually produces about 1,000 pages of original translations of the ancient classics of Asian literature. Michael is active in other causes. In 1993 he founded the Asian Classics Institute (ACI), which offers a 36-course program of study totaling 6,800 pages of translations for the traditional course material of a master of Tibetan Buddhism (Geshe). In 2003, after completing a 3-year silent retreat, he helped found Diamond Mountain Retreat Center, one of the largest centers of this kind in the world. In recent years he has helped found the Seeds for Peace program, which provides vocational training for refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East.