]> 2026-10-13T14:02:18-04:00 Sa skya paN+Di ta 0 en Sapaṇ; Sapen; Sapan ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་; ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ kun dga' rgyal mtshan; sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan People File:Sakya Pandita (R. Beer).jpg https://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=325 true true true true File:Sakya Pandita (R. Beer).jpg|Line Drawing by Robert Beer Courtesy of [http://www.tibetanart.com/ The Robert Beer Online Galleries] File:Sakya Pandita (R. Beer).jpg Sakya Paṇḍita ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ sa skya paN+Di ta Classical Tibetan Authors Grandson of [[Sa chen kun dga' snying po]] and nephew of [[rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan]] and [[bsod nams rtse mo]], and uncle of [[chos rgyal 'phags pa]]. Sakya Sakya Paṇḍita Śākyaśrībhadra;rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshan Classical gu ru chos kyi dbang phyug;chos rgyal 'phags pa;yang dgon pa rgyal mtshan dpal;lho pa kun mkhyen rin chen dpal Tiger Pig Iron Female 4 Water Male 3 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. http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Sakya-Pan%E1%B8%8Dita-Kunga-Gyeltsen/2137 1182 1251 2025-06-13T20:07:28Z 2460840.3385185 2025-06-13T20:07:28Z 2460840.3385185 true Sa skya paN+Di ta 0 1 template 3 [[Category:Tibetan Collections]] [[WorkAuthor::Sa skya paN+Di ta]] Sa skya paN+Di ta# QUERY16aedb28fcbe0e5a5ee0bf6fe62ca83c 0 0 count 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Sa skya paN+Di ta]] Sa skya paN+Di ta# QUERYf2364fe4578e101582d2421dc58a4b09 0 200 0 template 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Sa skya paN+Di ta]] Sa skya paN+Di ta# QUERYbbf929c6fe0ff08e5b5272b0d23c99ac ས་པཎ་གྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་གྱི་གདམས་ངག། 0 en ས་པཎ་གྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་གྱི་གདམས་ངག། WorkAuthor 102 en WorkAuthor