Rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan

Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen

རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

1147 - 1216

Jetsun Drakpa Gyeltsen of the aristocratic Khon family was the third of the five men credited with founding the Sakya order. He was also the Fifth Sakya Tridzin, or throne holder. His father Sachen Kunga Nyingpo and his elder brother Sonam Tsemo were the first and second Sakya patriarchs. Drakpa Gyeltsen was instrumental in the early recording and compiling of the Lamdre teachings that form the basis of the Sakya tradition.
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Other names

• ས་སྐྱ་རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
• sa skya rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• shAk+ya'i dge bsnyen grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• shAk+ya'i dge bsnyen theg pa mchog gi rnal 'byor pa grags pa rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
• Sakya Tridzin, 5th · other names

Affiliations & relations

• Son of Sa chen kun dga' snying po and younger brother of bsod nams rtse mo · familial relation
• Sakya · religious affiliation
• nil · teacher
• nil · student

Sakya - 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. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་

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