The Treasury of Lives

Hanung Kim is an assistant professor in the department of history at Korea University. He earned a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard University in 2018.

Published May 2025

Bibliography

Das, Sarat Chandra. 1889. "Life of Sum-pa mkhan-po, also styled Ye-ses dpal-'byor, the author of Rehumig (Chronological Table)."Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 57, pp. 37-84.

de Jong, J. W. 1967. "Sum-pa mkhan-po (1704-1788) and His Works." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 27, pp. 208-216.

Don rdor and Bstan 'dzin chos grags. 1993.Gangs ljongs lo rgyus thog gi grags can mi sna. Lhasa: Bod ljongs mi dmangs dpe skrun khang, pp. 762-764.

Erdenibayar. 2007.Sumpa Khenpo Ishibaljur. A great figure in Mongolian and Tibetan cultures.In Uradyn E. Bulag, Hildegard G. M. Diemberger,The Mongolia-Tibet interface. Opening new research terrains in Inner Asia.Tibetan studies: Proceedings of the Tenth Eeminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies. Brill: Oxford, 2003.

Garri, Irina, Yumzhana Zhabon, and Hortsang Jigme. 2024. "Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Peljor and his 'History of Kokonor'." Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 71, pp.255-277.

Griffiths, Rachael. 2020. "A Polymath from Amdo: The Many Hats of Sumpa Khenpo Yeshe Paljor (1704–1788)." Doctoral thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Kapstein, Matthew. 2011. "Just where on Jambudvīpa are we?: New geographical knowledge and old cosmological schemes in eighteenth-century Tibet." In Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet 1500-1800, edited by Sheldon Pollock, (Durham NC: Duke University Press), pp. 336–364.

Kim, Hanung. 2017. "Introduction to the New Publication of Sum pa Ye shes dpal 'byor's Collected Works." Zangxue xuekan no.17, pp. 275–91.

Kim, Hanung. 2018. "Renaissance Man from Amdo: The Life and Scholarship of the Eighteenth-Century Amdo Scholar Sum pa Mkhan po Ye shes dpal 'byor (1704–1788)." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Kim, Hanung. 2020. "Rainmakers for the Cosmopolitan Empire: A Historical and Religious Study of 18th Century Tibetan Rainmaking Rituals in the Qing Dynasty." Religions 11, 630.

Mi nyag mgon po. 1996-2000.Sum pa ye shes dpal 'byor gyi rnam thar mdor bsdus/ (1704-1788). InGangs can mkhas dbang rim byon gyi rnam thar mdor bsdus,pp. 462-473. Beijing: Krung go'i bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang.

Sullivan, Brenton. 2018. "The Manner in which I went to Worship Mañjuśrī's Realm, The Five-Peaked Mountain (Wutai), by Sumba Kanbo (1704–1788)." Inner Asia 20, pp. 64–106.

Sum pa mkhan po. 1997. Sum pa ye shes dpal 'byor gyi rnam thar nyid kyis mdzad pa [Sumpa Khenpo's short autobiography]. Lanzhou: Kan su'u mi rigs dpe skrun khang.

Sum pa mkhan po. 2001. Paṇḍita sum pa ye shes dpal 'byor mchog gi spyod tshul brjod pa sgra 'dzin bcud len [Autobiography of Sumpa khenpo]. Beijing: Krung go'i bod kyi shes rig dpe skrun khang.

Qinggeli 青格力. 2021. "Songpakanbu yixibanjue 'wenji' keben yu wusutuzhao mukediaoban" 松巴堪布·益希班觉《文集》刻本与乌素图召木刻雕板 ["The Block Printed Editions of Sum-pa mkhan-po's Collected Works and the Carved Printing Blocks of Usutu Zuu"]. Qinghai minzu yanjiu, 32-2, pp. 123-29.

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