ས་སྐྱ་ sa skya
Sakya
Tibetan - School
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Basic Meaning
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.
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Tibetan
ས་སྐྱ་
sa skya
sa kya
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SakyaBuddha-nature Standard
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Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
The seat of the (sa skya), founded in 1073 by Könchok Gyalpo of the Khön clan. Its main temple, the impressive Great Emanated Temple (sprul pa'i gtsug lag khang chen mo), was erected in 1268 and is the only building, among over a hundred temples in Sakya's monastic complex, which survived the Cultural Revolution. [MR]. 1) Sakya. One of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in the eleventh century by Drogmi Lotsawa ('brog mi lo tsa ba), a disciple of the Indian master Virupa.
Term type
School
Source language
Tibetan
Topic
Sakya
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