Sakya
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Key Term | Sakya |
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Hover Popup Choices | Sakya; Sakyapa |
Featured People | Sa chen kun dga' snying po, Bsod nams rtse mo, Sa skya paN+Di ta, Go rams pa bsod nams seng ge, Jorden, Ngawang |
In Tibetan Script | ས་སྐྱ་ |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | sa skya |
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering | sa kya |
English Standard | Sakya |
Term Type | School |
Source Language | Tibetan |
Basic Meaning | The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. |
Definitions | |
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | The seat of the (sa skya), founded in 1073 by Könchok Gyalpo of the Khön clan. Its main temple, the impressive Great Emanated Temple (sprul pa'i gtsug lag khang chen mo), was erected in 1268 and is the only building, among over a hundred temples in Sakya's monastic complex, which survived the Cultural Revolution. [MR]. 1) Sakya. One of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in the eleventh century by Drogmi Lotsawa ('brog mi lo tsa ba), a disciple of the Indian master Virupa. |