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Khön Könchok Gyalpo
Also known as dKon mchog rgyal po, Khon Konchok Gyalpo
Khön Könchok Gyalpo (1034-1102), of the ancient Khön family of southern Tibet, founder of the mother monastery of the Sakya school at Sakya in Tsang in 1073. Trained in both the earlier Nyingma transmissions of his family and the new Sanskrit tantric lineages brought back from India by Drokmi Lotsawa — notably the Hevajra cycle derived from the Indian mahāsiddha Virūpa — he fused them into the Lamdré ('Path and Fruit') system. His son Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158) became the first of the five great Sakya patriarchs; his great-nephew Sakya Pandita negotiated the Mongol submission of Tibet in 1247.
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- Regional Flourishing, Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions
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- Founder ofSakya — the Grey Earth school
Khön Könchok Gyalpo, of the ancient Khön family of southern Tibet, founded the mother monastery of the Sakya school on the grey earth hillside of Sakya in Tsang in 1073. He fused his family's Nyingma transmissions with the newly imported Indian Hevajra lineage of Drokmi Lotsawa into the Lamdré ('Path and Fruit') teaching system that still defines the school.
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