Sa chen kun dga' snying po

ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092 - 1158) Born in: sa skya <br>Tibetan date of birth: Year of the Male Water Monkey, 2^nd sexagenary cycle. <br>

 

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Sachen Kunga Nyingpo was the first of the Sakya Jetsun Gongma Nga, the five founding patriarchs of Sakya. These five men of the Khon family are credited with having laid the foundations for the Sakya tradition. Sachen was a layman and the third Sakya Tridzin or throne holder, a position distinct from his later designation as a patriarch. His father, Khon Khonchog Gyelpo, was the first Sakya throne holder and the founder of what became Sakya monastery.
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All Names

Main Wylie Name	sa chen kun dga' snying po	ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ
Other Names	sa skya pa chen po kun dga' snying po kun khyab rab dga'i snying 'khon kun dga' snying po Sakya Tridzin, 3rd	ས་སྐྱ་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་ ཀུན་ཁྱབ་རབ་དགའི་སྙིང་ འཁོན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་

Relationships

Religious Affiliation	Sakya
Is Emanation of
Has Following Emanations
Teachers	Ba ri lo tsA ba
Students	Phag mo gru pa rdo rje rgyal po bsod nams rtse mo rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan Byang chub sems dpa' zla ba rgyal mtshan

Links

BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1615
Treasury of Lives	http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sachen-Kunga-Nyingpo/2916
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=324