'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa

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Classical Tibetan Authors

འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་

Wylie	'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa
English Phonetics	Drogön Chögyal Pakpa

Other names

• འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

• 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan
• chos rgyal 'phags pa
• 'gro mgon 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan
• blo gros rgyal mtshan

Alternate names

• Pakpa Lodro Gyaltsen
• Chögyal Phagpa
• Chögyal Phakpa
• Chogyal Phagpa
• Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
• Drogon Chogyal Phagpa
• Drogön Phagpa Lodrö Gyaltsen
• Drogon Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen

Dates

Birth:	1235
Death:	1280
Place of birth:	Ngari

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Religious Affiliation

Sakya

Familial Relations

Sonam Gyeltsen (Father); Kunga Kyi (Mother); Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (Uncle)

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1048

Treasury of Lives Link

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Pakpa-Lodro-Gyeltsen/2051

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

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.

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/items/162

Wiki Pages

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• 'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa on the LIB
• 'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa on the BNW

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Other Biographical Information

TBRC RID: P1048

Biography from hhthesakyatrizin.org

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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.