A Treasury of Jewels

There is even a traditional belief that if one of your sons becomes a monk, you acquire merit equivalent to constructing a stupa.

The great spiritual master venerable Gen Yeshe Thabkhe studied the five major monastic texts with much determination, day and night, at the behest of his teachers such as Gen Jamyang Nyishar while venerating his spiritual teachers properly at the great monastic university of Drepung, the source of hundreds of millions of scholars. But there is a Tibetan saying, "Devils in the place of Dharma practice," and Gen la encountered two such unavoidable obstacles.

Through this biography we learn of the hardships he faced in Tibet to become one of the foremost scholars of Gelug geshes, a master of logic and debate, while living a life of humility. We present you this book in accordance with a Tibetan saying, "Biographies of past masters are the practice for the disciples who follow."