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Kunga Tashi and Incidents from His Life (Abbot of Sakya Monastery, 1688–1711)Sakya Monastery, Tibet in 1948 prior to its destruction
Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa'gya County, about 127 kilometres (79 mi) west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.[1] The monastery is considered as the seat of the Sakya (or Sakyapa) school of Tibetan Buddhism.[2]
^TBRC. sa skya dgon pa. TBRC G880. New York: TBRC, 2011. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=G880
^Handa, O.C. (2004). Buddhist Monasteries of Himachal. Indus Publishing Company. p. 219. ISBN 978-81-7387-170-2. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
instead of Tibetan characters. SakyaMonastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal...
The name Sakya ("pale earth") derives from the unique grey landscape of the Ponpori Hills in southern Tibet near Shigatse, where SakyaMonastery, the first...
noble Khön family, established a monastery in the region of Sakya, Tibet, which became the headquarters of the Sakya order. Since that time, its leadership...
including Sakya Monastery in Rajpur, Sakya Institute, Sakya College, Sakya Nunnery, Sakya College for Nuns, Sakya Tibetan Settlement, Sakya Hospital, dozens...
America. He is the first Head of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism to live in the United States. From the SakyaMonastery of Tibetan Buddhism in Seattle,...
There is a small chapel on the top story containing images of Sakya Pandita and other Sakya lamas. There is a 'museum' adjoining it with a number of very...
(1991-09-01). "A Brief History of Nalendra Monastery". Study Buddhism. Original version published in "SakyaMonasteries." Chö-Yang, Year of Tibet Edition (Dharamsala...
Namgyal Monastery (Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།, Wylie: rnam rgyal) (also often referred to as "Dalai Lama's Temple") is currently located in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala...
Sakya Forefather and sixth Sakya Trizin and one of the most important figures in the Sakya lineage. Sakya Pandita was born as Palden Dondup at Sakya in...
Palyul Shechen Monastery Samye the first monastery in Tibet, established by Padmasambhāva and Śāntarakṣita was later taken over by the Sakya tradition. Kagyu...
One example is the Sakya family of Kon, who founded the Sakya school and another is the hereditary lamas of Mindrolling monastery. In other cases, lamas...
established between the 14th and 15th centuries as a feudatory, with the Sakya sect playing a crucial overlord role. During this period, the Buddhist monuments...
the construction. The stupa was built within the Main Hall of the SakyaMonastery. Arniko spent two years on this project. After its completion, Phagpa...
now destroyed Kadampa monastery at the nearby village of Rangrik, which was probably destroyed in the 14th century when the Sakya sect rose to power with...
Nyingma and a Kadampa temple at some stage. In 1275 it was founded as a Sakyamonastery by Drogön Chögyal Phagpa on his return from China. Before 1958, Dzongsar...
Unchanging Spontaneous Presence is the first Tibetan Buddhist and Nyingma monastery built in Tibet, during the reign of King Trisong Deutsen. Shantarakshita...
periphery of the Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary. It is one of only two monasteries belonging to the Sakya sect left in Spiti - the other, at Kaza itself, is small and...
(Tibetan: སྡེ་དགེ་དགོན་ཆེན, Wylie: sde dge dgon chen), is a large Sakya Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the town of Derge, in Sichuan, China. Gonchen is located...
major monasteries to be built by noble families of the Tsangpa during Tibet's great revival of Buddhism, and was an important center of the Sakya tradition...
鄂尔艾旺却丹寺) is the name of a monastery in the Ü-Tsang province of Tibet about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Shigatse and is the Sakya school's second most...
Jamchen Chojey of Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang (1355–1435), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa. During the 1959 revolt in Lhasa, Sera monastery suffered severe...
disguised as a nomad woman. She was tamed by Sakya Gongma Rinpoche. Around 1902, Shangmo escaped from the SakyaMonastery and followed Domo Geshe Rinpoche to Dungkar...
Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple (Chinese: 释迦牟尼菩提迦耶寺) is a Buddhist monastery in Singapore. The temple was originally set up by Venerable Vutthisara of Thailand...
doord darkhan. It is also called the Sakya dynasty (Chinese: 薩迦王朝; pinyin: Sàjiā Wángcháo) after the favored Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. The region...
initially educated at Sakyamonastery, and he also studied Kagyu and Nyingma lineages. He was very impressed by the yogis of Jonang Monastery and eventually...
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