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Sakya — the Grey Earth school
Also known as Sa skya pa, Sakyapa
Sakya, named after the grey earth (sa skya) of the hillside in southern Tibet where Khön Könchok Gyalpo founded the mother monastery of the school in 1073. The teachings centre on the Lamdré ('Path and Its Fruit'), a systematic exposition of the Hevajra Tantra transmitted through the Indian mahāsiddha Virūpa. The Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251) negotiated the submission of Tibet to the Mongol prince Köden in 1247 and his nephew Chögyal Phakpa served as the imperial preceptor of Kublai Khan — establishing the priest-patron (chöyön) relationship that is the paradigm of Tibetan political theology. Sakya's current heads are the Sakya Trizin and the Dolma Phodrang throne-holders.
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- Regional Flourishing, Islamic Age and Bhakti Traditions, Republic and Living Practice
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- Founder ofKhön Könchok Gyalpo
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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Standard reference; Wikipedia Tibetan Buddhism.
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