Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (Tib. ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan) (1182-1251) — one of the five Sakya patriarchs and the nephew of Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen. He was one of the greatest scholars in Tibetan history and one of the so-called 'Three Mañjughoshas of Tibet'. He was the uncle of Chögyal Pakpa.

Writings

• Clear Differentiation of the Three Sets of Vows (སྡོམ་གསུམ་རབ་དབྱེ་, sdom gsum rab dbye)
• Elucidating the Sage's Intent (ཐུབ་པ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ་, thub pa dgongs pa rab gsal)
• Sakya Lekshé (ས་སྐྱ་ལེགས་བཤད་, sa skya legs bshad)
• Sapan Khenjuk (མཁས་འཇུག་, mkhas 'jug)
• Treasury of Valid Reasoning (ཚད་མ་རིགས་པའི་གཏེར་, tshad ma rigs pa'i gter)

Further Reading

• David P. Jackson, 'Commentaries on the Writings of Sa skya Pandita: A Bibliographical Sketch' in The Tibet Journal, Vol.VIII, No.3, Autumn 1983
• Migmar Tsering, 'Sakya Pandita: Glimpses of His Three Major Works' in The Tibet Journal, VOL.XIII,1, Spring 1988
• Sakya Pandita, Ordinary Wisdom: Sakya Pandita's Treasury of Good Advice, translated by John T. Davenport, Boston: Wisdom, 2000, ISBN 978-0861711611
• Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen, A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes: Essential Distinctions among the Individual Liberation, Great Vehicle, and Tantric Systems, translated by Jared Rhoton, New York: SUNY, 2002, ISBN 978-0791452868
• Sakya Pandita, "Illuminations, A Guide To Essential Buddhist Practices", translated by Geshe Wangyal and Brian Cutillo, Novato, Wisdom Publications, 1988, ISBN 978-0932156051

Internal Links

• Five Sakya patriarchs
• Prayer to Sakya Pandita
• Throneholders of the Sakya school

External Links

• Series on Lotsawa House
• TBRC profile
• Biography at Treasury of Lives