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|tolExcerpt=Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen ('phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan) was born in 1235 in Ngari (mnga' ris) into the illustrious Khon ('khon) family that had recently established themselves at Sakya in Tsang. His father was Sonam Gyeltsen (bsod nams rgyal mtshan, 1184-1239), the younger brother of the great scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyeltsen (sa skya pan di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan, 1182-1251), who is commonly referred to as Sapan. His mother was Kunga Kyi (Kun dga' kyid).
|tolExcerpt=Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen was the fifth of the Five Sakya Patriarchs, the men credited with having established the foundation of the Sakya tradition. His father was Sonam Gyeltsen, the younger brother of the great scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyeltsen. He went to Godan Khan’s court with Sakya Paṇḍita as a boy, and went on to play a central role in Tibetan relations with Khubilai Khan and the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. Sakya became the capital of Mongolian-ruled Tibet, and using funds from the new Yuan state Pakpa built the Lhakhang Chenmo at Sakya, establishing what is commonly known as Sakya Monastery. He and Sakya Paṇḍita are also credited with developing a written script so that Buddhist texts could be translated into Mongolian, which had previously not been written. This is named Pakpa Script in his honor.
 
In 1244 Pakpa and his younger brother Chana Dorje (phyag na rdo rje, 1239-1267) traveled to the Mongol court of Godan Khan, the son of the Mongol leader Ogodei, with their uncle Sakya Paṇḍita. As Goden was in Yunnan at the time, they did not meet until 1247. Tibetan historians have it that Sapan went to Mongolia to serve as religious preceptor, but it is more likely that he was summoned to serve as proxy for a Tibetan acceptance of Mongolian rule. Some scholars have speculated that Pakpa and his brother, the heirs to the Khon family, accompanied their uncle as hostages. However, it is more likely that they went along simply as disciples and attendants to their teacher and uncle.
 
Like his uncle Pakpa was fully ordained, having received his vows from Sapan the year they left for Mongolia. He was given his initial instruction in the Vinaya from Sherab Sengge (she rab seng gye).
 
Pakpa remained in Mongolia after the death of his uncle in 1251. Godan's influence was on the wane, having lost succession first to his brother Guyug and again in 1251 to his cousin Mongke. In 1253 Mongke's brother, Khubilai invited Pakpa to his newly built city of Kaiping (latter known as Shangdu), presumably in part because he believed the Tibetan Buddhist lama could help justify the Mongol's rule of China. In fact the invitation had been for Sapan, but Pakpa went in his place. In 1254, on his way to meet the Khan, Pakpa went on a teaching tour in Kham where he visited various monasteries, converting several, including Dzongsar (dzong gsar) and Jyegu Dondrub Ling (skye dgu don grub gling) from Bon to the Sakya tradition.
 
Once Pakpa was settled at Khubilai's court, he gained a significant degree of influence and authority. Beginning in 1258 Pakpa performed Buddhist initiations and empowerments for the Khan and, in that same year, participated in a debate with leading Daoists. According to Tibetan historians  Khubilai judged him to be the winner, a victory moved the Khan to burn Daoist texts and force prominent Daoists to convert to Buddhism.
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== Writings ==
== Writings ==
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PersonType Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon Drogön Chögyal Pakpa
MainNameTib འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་
MainNameWylie 'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa
AltNamesTib འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་
AltNamesWylie 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan  ·  chos rgyal 'phags pa  ·  'gro mgon 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan  ·  blo gros rgyal mtshan
AltNamesOther Pakpa Lodro Gyaltsen  ·  Chögyal Phagpa  ·  Chögyal Phakpa  ·  Chogyal Phagpa  ·  Drogön Chögyal Phagpa  ·  Drogon Chogyal Phagpa  ·  Drogön Phagpa Lodrö Gyaltsen  ·  Drogon Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen
YearBirth 1235
YearDeath 1280
BornIn Ngari
ReligiousAffiliation Sakya
PersonalAffiliation Sonam Gyeltsen (Father); Kunga Kyi (Mother); Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (Uncle)
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1048
Treasury of Lives https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Pakpa-Lodro-Gyeltsen/2051
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IsInGyatsa No
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TBRC RID: P1048

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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.

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