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Sönam Tsemo

བསོད་ནམས་རྩེ་མོ་

1142 – 1182

Sonam Tsemo, the son of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, was the second of the five founding patriarchs of the Sakya tradition. He was also the fourth Sakya Trizin at Sakya Monastery, although he served as active head of the monastery for only a few years.

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Affiliations & relations

• Oldest son of Sa chen kun dga' snying po and older brother of Rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan. · familial relation
• sa skya · religious affiliation
• Sa chen kun dga' snying po · teacher
• Phywa pa chos kyi seng+ge · teacher
• Rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan · 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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