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 name
Source Language	Tibetan
Definitions

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.