Sa skya paN+Di ta

ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་
Sakya Paṇḍita (1182 - 1251) Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Water Tiger, 3^rd sexagenary cycle. <br>Tibetan date of passing: ^th day, ^th month, Year of the Female Iron Pig, 4^th sexagenary cycle. <br>

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Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen, commonly referred to as Sapaṇ, was the fourth of the Five Patriarchs of Sakya and the sixth Sakya throne holder. A member of the illustrious Khon family that established and controlled the Sakya tradition, he was an advocate for strict adherence to Indian Buddhist traditions, standing in opposition to Chinese or Tibetan innovations that he considered corruptions. In this regard he was a major player in what has been termed the Tibetan Renaissance period, when there was a move to reinvigorate Tibetan Buddhism’s connections to its Indian antecedents. He was instrumental in transmitting the Indian system of five major and five minor sciences to Tibet. As an ordained monk, Sapaṇ was instrumental in laying the groundwork for adherence to the Vinaya at Sakya Monastery, built under his successors. He authored more than one hundred texts and was also a prolific translator from Sanskrit. His writings are among the most widely influential in Tibetan literature and prompted commentaries by countless subsequent authors. Sapaṇ’s reputation as a scholar and Buddhist authority helped him forge close ties with powerful Mongols, relations that would eventually lead to the establishment of Sakya Monastery and its position of political power over the Thirteen Myriarchies of central Tibet.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	sa skya paN+Di ta	ས་སྐྱ་པནྡི་ཏ
Other Names	{{#arraymap: kun dga' rgyal mtshan; sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan;Sapaṇ; Sapen; Sapan	;	@@@	@@@	}}	{{#arraymap: ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་; ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་	;	@@@	@@@	}}

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Sakya
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Teachers	{{#arraymap: Śākyaśrībhadra;rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan	;	@@@	@@@	}}
Students	{{#arraymap: gu ru chos kyi dbang phyug;chos rgyal 'phags pa;yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal;lho pa kun mkhyen rin chen dpal	;	@@@	@@@	}}

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1056
Treasury of Lives	http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sakya-Pan%E1%B8%8Dita-Kunga-Gyeltsen/2137
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=325