Sakya

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Key Term	Sakya
In Tibetan Script	ས་སྐྱ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	sa skya
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	sa kya
Term Type	School
Source Language	Tibetan
Basic Meaning	The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khon 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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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.