Khon Konchok Gyalpo

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Khon Konchok Gyalpo

ས་སྐྱ་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་པོ་

1034 – 1102

Khon Konchok Gyelpo was the founder a small temple that later grew into Sakya Monastery. A patriarch of a family, the Khon, that had followed Nyingma teachings since the first propagation of Buddhism in Tibet, he studied the newly-translated tantras of Hevajra, Cakrasaṃvara, Guhyasamāja and others. Most famously, he received the Lamdre teachings from Drokmi Lotsāwa. His son was Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, who is credited with initiating both the Sakya tradition and founding Sakya Monastery.

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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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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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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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