Bari Lotsāwa

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Bari Lotsāwa

བ་རི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་

1040 – 1112

Bari Lotsawa, also known as Rinchen Drak, was the second throne holder of Sakya school (Tib. Sakya Trizin). At the age of 63, he retained the seat of Sakya for a period of eight years (1102-1110). He is one of the main lineage figures in the transmission and translation of the White Tara practice and tantras that originate from the Indian master Vagishvarakirti. (Source: Rigpa Wiki)

Also known as

རིན་ཆེན་གྲགས་ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན་གཉིས་པ་rin chen gragssa skya khri 'dzin gnyis paSakya Tridzin2nd

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Teacher of

Sachen Kunga Nyingpo

1 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Bari Lotsāwa.

Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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