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March 06, 2023

This article is about the school of Tibetan Buddhism. For the ancient Śākya tribe, see Shakya.

The Sakya (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་, Wylie: sa skya, 'pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug. It is one of the Red Hat Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu.

Sakya Lineage Tree

Origins

 
Virūpa, 16th century. It depicts a famous episode in his hagiography when he stopped the sun in the sky.[1]
 
Sakya Pandita

The name Sakya ("pale earth") derives from the unique grey landscape of the Ponpori Hills in southern Tibet near Shigatse, where Sakya Monastery, the first monastery of this tradition, and the seat of the Sakya School was built by Khon Konchog Gyalpo (1034–1102) in 1073.

The Sakya tradition developed during the second period of translation of Buddhist scripture from Sanskrit into Tibetan in the late 11th century. It was founded by Drogmi, a famous scholar and translator who had studied at the Vikramashila directly under Naropa, Ratnākaraśānti, Vagishvakirti and other great panditas from India for twelve years.[2]

Khon Konchog Gyalpo became Drogmi's disciple on the advice of his elder brother.[3][4]

The tradition was established by the "Five Venerable Supreme Masters" starting with the grandson of Khonchog Gyalpo, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, who became known as Sachen, or "Great Sakyapa":[5][6]

Buton Rinchen Drub (1290–1364) was an important scholar and writer and one of Tibet's most celebrated historians. Other notable scholars of the Sakya tradition are the so-called "Six Ornaments of Tibet:"

  • Yaktuk Sangyey Pal
  • Rongton (1367–1449) [7]
  • Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo[8]
  • Zongpa Kunga Namgyel
  • Gorampa (1429–1489)
  • Sakya Chokden (1428–1507)

The leadership of the Sakya School is passed down through a hereditary system between the male members of the Sakya branch of the Khon family.

Teachings

Sachen, the first of the five supreme masters, inherited a wealth of tantric doctrines from numerous Tibetan translators or "lotsawas" who had visited India: most importantly Drokmi Lotsawa,[4] Bari Lotsawa and Mal Lotsawa.[9] From Drokmi comes the supreme teaching of Sakya, the system of Lamdre "Path and its Fruit" deriving from the mahasiddha Virūpa based upon the Hevajra Tantra. Mal Lotsawa introduced to Sakya the esoteric Vajrayogini lineage known as "Naro Khachoma." From Bari Lotsawa came innumerable tantric practices, foremost of which was the cycle of practices known as the One Hundred Sadhanas. Other key transmissions that form part of the Sakya spiritual curriculum include the cycles of Vajrakilaya, Mahākāla and Guhyasamāja tantras.

The fourth Sakya patriarch, Sakya Pandita, was notable for his exceptional scholarship and composed many important and influential texts on sutra and tantra, including "Means of Valid Cognition: A Treasury of Reasoning" (Wylie: tshad ma rigs gter), "Clarifying the Sage's Intent" (Wylie: thub pa dgongs gsal) and "Discriminating the Three Vows" (Wylie: sdom gsum rab dbye).

The main Dharma system of the Sakya school is the "Path with its Result" (Wylie: lam dang 'bras bu bcas), which is split into two main lineages, "Explanation for the Assembly" (Wylie: tshogs bshad) and the "Explanation for Close Disciples" (Wylie: slobs bshad).

The other major system of the Sakya school is the "Naropa Explanation For Disciples" (Wylie: nā ro mkha spyod slob bshad).

Another important series of teachings is based on verses of Günga Nyingpo (1092–1158) called "separating from the four attachments" which is the subject of commentaries by numerous Sakya masters like Drakpa Gyeltsen, Sakya Pandita, Ngorchen Günga Sangpo, and Gorampa Sönam Senggé. The verses are:[10]

If you cling to this life, then you are not a dharma practitioner.

If you cling to existence, then you do not have renunciation.

If you are attached to your own interests, then you do not have the mind of awakening.

If you hold to a position, then you do not have the correct view.

Subschools

In due course, two subsects emerged from the main Sakya lineage,

  • Ngor, founded in Tsang by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382–1457).[8] The Ngor school is centered on Ngor Evam Choden monastery. It represents 85% of the Sakyapa school[citation needed] and most if not all the monasteries in India are Ngorpa, apart from Sakya Trizin's monastery.
  • Tshar, founded by Tsarchen Losal Gyamtso (1496 - 1560 or 1502–1556).[11]

There were three "mother" monasteries of the Sakya school: Sakya Monastery, founded in 1073, Ngor Evam Choden, founded in 1429, and Phanyul Nalendra in Phanyul, north of Lhasa, founded in 1435 by Kuntchen Rongten. Nalendra became the home of the 'whispered-lineage' of the Tsar school.[12]

The Bodongpa tradition, founded by Bodong Panchen Chögle Namgyel [1376 1451], is considered by some scholars to be a sub-sect of the Sakya tradition.[citation needed]

Feudal lordship over Tibet

See also: Tibet under Yuan rule, Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs, and List of rulers of Tibet
 
Tibet within the Yuan dynasty under the top-level department known as the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs (Xuanzheng Yuan).

The Mongol conquest of Tibet began after the foundation of the Mongol Empire in the early 13th century. In 1264, the feudal reign over Tibet was given to Drogön Chögyal Phagpa by Kublai Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty. Sakya lamas, along with Sakya Imperial Preceptors and dpon-chens continued to serve as viceroys or administrators of Tibet on behalf of Yuan emperors for nearly 75 years after Phagpa’s death in 1280, until the Yuan dynasty was greatly weakened by the Red Turban Rebellion in the 1350s, a decade before the Ming dynasty founded by the Han people overthrew the Yuan dynasty.

The leaders of the Sakya regime were as follows.

Sakya today

The head of the Sakya school, known as Sakya Trizin ("holder of the Sakya throne"), is always drawn from the male line of the Khön family. The present Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra is the forty-third to hold that office. 41st Sakya Trizin is thought to be the reincarnation of two great Tibetan masters: a Nyingmapa lama known as Apong Terton (Orgyen Thrinley Lingpa), who is famous for his Red Tara cycle, and his grandfather, the 39th Kyabgon Sakya Trizin Dhagtshul Thrinley Rinchen (1871–1936).[13]

Traditionally, hereditary succession has alternated between the two Sakya palaces, since Khon Könchok Gyelpo's (1034–1102) reign. The Ducho sub-dynasty of Sakya survives split into two palaces, the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang. Sakya Trizin is head of the Dolma Phodrang. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya (1929–2016) was the head of the Phuntsok Phodrang, and lived in Seattle, Washington, where he co-founded Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism with Dezhung Rinpoche III, and constructed the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the United States. Dagchen Sakya's father was the previous Sakya Trizin, Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchuk, throne holder of Sakya, and his mother Dechen Drolma. Dagchen Sakya was married to Her Eminence Dagmo Jamyang Kusho Sakya; they have five sons, five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

The Rimé movement

Main article: Rimé movement

Having seen how the Gelug institutions pushed the other traditions into the corners of Tibet's cultural life, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrül compiled together the teachings of the Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma, including many near-extinct teachings.[14] Without Khyentse and Kongtrul's collecting and printing of rare works, the suppression of Buddhism by the Communists would have been much more final.[15]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: Social History of the Tantric Movement, p. 259
  2. ^ Luminous Lives, Stearns, Wisdom 2001
  3. ^ Ch. 25, Treasures of the Sakya Lineage, Tseten, Shambhala, 2008
  4. ^ a b Warner, Cameron David Warner (December 2009). "Drokmi Śākya Yeshe". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  5. ^ Powers, John. Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. Snow Lion Publications. 1995. p. 382.
  6. ^ Townsend, Dominique (December 2009). "Sachen Kunga Nyingpo". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  7. ^ Townsend, Dominique (February 2010). "Rongton Sheja Kunrik". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  8. ^ a b Townsend, Dominique; Jörg Heimbel (April 2010). "Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  9. ^ Gardner, Alexander (June 2010). "Mel Lotsāwa Lodro Drakpa". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  10. ^ Powers, John. Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, Revised Edition (2007) Snow Lion Publications, p. 438.
  11. ^ Gardner, Alexander (April 2010). "Nesar Jamyang Khyentse Wangchuk". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters. Retrieved 2013-08-09.
  12. ^ The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art by John C. Huntington and Dina Bangdel. Serindia Publications. pg 42
  13. ^ Hungarian website of Sakya Trizin
  14. ^ Schaik, Sam van. Tibet: A History. Yale University Press 2011, page 165-9.
  15. ^ Schaik, Sam van. Tibet: A History. Yale University Press 2011, page 169.

References

  • Davidson, Ronald (1992). "Preliminary Studies on Hevajra's Abhisamaya and the Lam 'bras Tshogs bshad." In Davidson, Ronald M. & Goodman, Steven D. Tibetan Buddhism: reason and revelation. State University of New York Press: Albany, N.Y. ISBN 0-7914-0786-1 pp. 107–132.
  • Powers, John (1995). Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism. Ithaca, N.Y. USA: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-026-3.
  • Trichen, Chogyay. History of the Sakya Tradition, Ganesha Press, 1993

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sakya.
  • His Holiness the Sakya Trizin, Official Website.
  • The French Ngorpa temple.
  • Tsechen Kunchab Ling - Sakya Trizin's seat in the United States
  • Sakya Tsechen Thubten Ling - Canada
  • Sakya Dechenling - Canada
  • Sakya Kachöd Chöling - Canada
  • Sakya Lamas
  • International Buddhist Academy (IBA) in Kathmandu, Nepal
  • Sakya Foundation - USA
  • Sakya Monastery in Seattle, Washington
  • Chödung Karmo, Sakya Translation Group
  • SAKYA TRADITION: DROGON CHOGYAL PHAGPA- Holy Biography of the Fifth Founder of the Sakya Order Synthesized from a biography written by Sakyapa Ngawang Kunga Sodnam

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This article is about the school of Tibetan Buddhism For the ancient Sakya tribe see Shakya The Sakya Tibetan ས ས Wylie sa skya pale earth school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism the others being the Nyingma Kagyu and Gelug It is one of the Red Hat Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu Sakya Lineage Tree Contents 1 Origins 2 Teachings 3 Subschools 4 Feudal lordship over Tibet 5 Sakya today 6 The Rime movement 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksOrigins Edit Virupa 16th century It depicts a famous episode in his hagiography when he stopped the sun in the sky 1 Sakya Monastery Sakya Pandita The name Sakya pale earth derives from the unique grey landscape of the Ponpori Hills in southern Tibet near Shigatse where Sakya Monastery the first monastery of this tradition and the seat of the Sakya School was built by Khon Konchog Gyalpo 1034 1102 in 1073 The Sakya tradition developed during the second period of translation of Buddhist scripture from Sanskrit into Tibetan in the late 11th century It was founded by Drogmi a famous scholar and translator who had studied at the Vikramashila directly under Naropa Ratnakarasanti Vagishvakirti and other great panditas from India for twelve years 2 Khon Konchog Gyalpo became Drogmi s disciple on the advice of his elder brother 3 4 The tradition was established by the Five Venerable Supreme Masters starting with the grandson of Khonchog Gyalpo Sachen Kunga Nyingpo who became known as Sachen or Great Sakyapa 5 6 Sachen Kunga Nyingpo 1092 1158 Sonam Tsemo 1142 1182 Jetsun Dragpa Gyaltsen 1147 1216 Sakya Pandita 1182 1251 Drogon Chogyal Phagpa 1235 1280 Buton Rinchen Drub 1290 1364 was an important scholar and writer and one of Tibet s most celebrated historians Other notable scholars of the Sakya tradition are the so called Six Ornaments of Tibet Yaktuk Sangyey Pal Rongton 1367 1449 7 Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo 8 Zongpa Kunga Namgyel Gorampa 1429 1489 Sakya Chokden 1428 1507 The leadership of the Sakya School is passed down through a hereditary system between the male members of the Sakya branch of the Khon family Teachings EditSachen the first of the five supreme masters inherited a wealth of tantric doctrines from numerous Tibetan translators or lotsawas who had visited India most importantly Drokmi Lotsawa 4 Bari Lotsawa and Mal Lotsawa 9 From Drokmi comes the supreme teaching of Sakya the system of Lamdre Path and its Fruit deriving from the mahasiddha Virupa based upon the Hevajra Tantra Mal Lotsawa introduced to Sakya the esoteric Vajrayogini lineage known as Naro Khachoma From Bari Lotsawa came innumerable tantric practices foremost of which was the cycle of practices known as the One Hundred Sadhanas Other key transmissions that form part of the Sakya spiritual curriculum include the cycles of Vajrakilaya Mahakala and Guhyasamaja tantras The fourth Sakya patriarch Sakya Pandita was notable for his exceptional scholarship and composed many important and influential texts on sutra and tantra including Means of Valid Cognition A Treasury of Reasoning Wylie tshad ma rigs gter Clarifying the Sage s Intent Wylie thub pa dgongs gsal and Discriminating the Three Vows Wylie sdom gsum rab dbye The main Dharma system of the Sakya school is the Path with its Result Wylie lam dang bras bu bcas which is split into two main lineages Explanation for the Assembly Wylie tshogs bshad and the Explanation for Close Disciples Wylie slobs bshad The other major system of the Sakya school is the Naropa Explanation For Disciples Wylie na ro mkha spyod slob bshad Another important series of teachings is based on verses of Gunga Nyingpo 1092 1158 called separating from the four attachments which is the subject of commentaries by numerous Sakya masters like Drakpa Gyeltsen Sakya Pandita Ngorchen Gunga Sangpo and Gorampa Sonam Sengge The verses are 10 If you cling to this life then you are not a dharma practitioner If you cling to existence then you do not have renunciation If you are attached to your own interests then you do not have the mind of awakening If you hold to a position then you do not have the correct view Subschools EditIn due course two subsects emerged from the main Sakya lineage Ngor founded in Tsang by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo 1382 1457 8 The Ngor school is centered on Ngor Evam Choden monastery It represents 85 of the Sakyapa school citation needed and most if not all the monasteries in India are Ngorpa apart from Sakya Trizin s monastery Tshar founded by Tsarchen Losal Gyamtso 1496 1560 or 1502 1556 11 There were three mother monasteries of the Sakya school Sakya Monastery founded in 1073 Ngor Evam Choden founded in 1429 and Phanyul Nalendra in Phanyul north of Lhasa founded in 1435 by Kuntchen Rongten Nalendra became the home of the whispered lineage of the Tsar school 12 The Bodongpa tradition founded by Bodong Panchen Chogle Namgyel 1376 1451 is considered by some scholars to be a sub sect of the Sakya tradition citation needed Feudal lordship over Tibet EditSee also Tibet under Yuan rule Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs and List of rulers of Tibet Tibet within the Yuan dynasty under the top level department known as the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs Xuanzheng Yuan The Mongol conquest of Tibet began after the foundation of the Mongol Empire in the early 13th century In 1264 the feudal reign over Tibet was given to Drogon Chogyal Phagpa by Kublai Khan founder of the Yuan dynasty Sakya lamas along with Sakya Imperial Preceptors and dpon chens continued to serve as viceroys or administrators of Tibet on behalf of Yuan emperors for nearly 75 years after Phagpa s death in 1280 until the Yuan dynasty was greatly weakened by the Red Turban Rebellion in the 1350s a decade before the Ming dynasty founded by the Han people overthrew the Yuan dynasty The leaders of the Sakya regime were as follows Drogon Chogyal Phagpa 1253 1280 Dharmapala Raksita 1280 1282 d 1287 Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen 1286 1303 Zangpo Pal 1306 1323 Khatsun Namkha Lekpa Gyaltsen 1325 1341 Jamyang Donyo Gyaltsen 1341 1344 Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen 1344 1347 Lotro Gyaltsen 1347 1365Sakya today EditThe head of the Sakya school known as Sakya Trizin holder of the Sakya throne is always drawn from the male line of the Khon family The present Sakya Trizin Gyana Vajra is the forty third to hold that office 41st Sakya Trizin is thought to be the reincarnation of two great Tibetan masters a Nyingmapa lama known as Apong Terton Orgyen Thrinley Lingpa who is famous for his Red Tara cycle and his grandfather the 39th Kyabgon Sakya Trizin Dhagtshul Thrinley Rinchen 1871 1936 13 Traditionally hereditary succession has alternated between the two Sakya palaces since Khon Konchok Gyelpo s 1034 1102 reign The Ducho sub dynasty of Sakya survives split into two palaces the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang Sakya Trizin is head of the Dolma Phodrang Jigdal Dagchen Sakya 1929 2016 was the head of the Phuntsok Phodrang and lived in Seattle Washington where he co founded Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism with Dezhung Rinpoche III and constructed the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in the United States Dagchen Sakya s father was the previous Sakya Trizin Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchuk throne holder of Sakya and his mother Dechen Drolma Dagchen Sakya was married to Her Eminence Dagmo Jamyang Kusho Sakya they have five sons five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren The Rime movement EditMain article Rime movement Having seen how the Gelug institutions pushed the other traditions into the corners of Tibet s cultural life Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Jamgon Kongtrul compiled together the teachings of the Sakya Kagyu and Nyingma including many near extinct teachings 14 Without Khyentse and Kongtrul s collecting and printing of rare works the suppression of Buddhism by the Communists would have been much more final 15 See also EditJonang Lamdre Patron and priest relationship Sakya Monastery Tibet under Yuan rule Tibetan BuddhismNotes Edit Davidson Ronald M Indian Esoteric Buddhism Social History of the Tantric Movement p 259 Luminous Lives Stearns Wisdom 2001 Ch 25 Treasures of the Sakya Lineage Tseten Shambhala 2008 a b Warner Cameron David Warner December 2009 Drokmi Sakya Yeshe The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 Powers John Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Snow Lion Publications 1995 p 382 Townsend Dominique December 2009 Sachen Kunga Nyingpo The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 Townsend Dominique February 2010 Rongton Sheja Kunrik The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 a b Townsend Dominique Jorg Heimbel April 2010 Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 Gardner Alexander June 2010 Mel Lotsawa Lodro Drakpa The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 Powers John Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Revised Edition 2007 Snow Lion Publications p 438 Gardner Alexander April 2010 Nesar Jamyang Khyentse Wangchuk The Treasury of Lives Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters Retrieved 2013 08 09 The Circle of Bliss Buddhist Meditational Art by John C Huntington and Dina Bangdel Serindia Publications pg 42 Hungarian website of Sakya Trizin Schaik Sam van Tibet A History Yale University Press 2011 page 165 9 Schaik Sam van Tibet A History Yale University Press 2011 page 169 References EditDavidson Ronald 1992 Preliminary Studies on Hevajra s Abhisamaya and the Lam bras Tshogs bshad In Davidson Ronald M amp Goodman Steven D Tibetan Buddhism reason and revelation State University of New York Press Albany N Y ISBN 0 7914 0786 1 pp 107 132 Powers John 1995 Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Ithaca N Y USA Snow Lion Publications ISBN 1 55939 026 3 Trichen Chogyay History of the Sakya Tradition Ganesha Press 1993External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sakya His Holiness the Sakya Trizin Official Website The French Ngorpa temple Palden Sakya Website of Sakya Trizin s Monastery in Rajpur India Tsechen Kunchab Ling Sakya Trizin s seat in the United States Sakya Tsechen Thubten Ling Canada Sakya Foundation Canada Sakya Dechenling Canada Sakya Kachod Choling Canada Sakya Lamas International Buddhist Academy IBA in Kathmandu Nepal Sakya Foundation USA Sakya Monastery in Seattle Washington Chodung Karmo Sakya Translation Group SAKYA TRADITION DROGON CHOGYAL PHAGPA Holy Biography of the Fifth Founder of the Sakya Order Synthesized from a biography written by Sakyapa Ngawang Kunga Sodnam Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sakya amp oldid 1135742662, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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