Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen

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Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen

རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་

1147 – 1216

Jetsun Drakpa Gyeltsen of the aristocratic Khon family was the third of the five men credited with founding the Sakya order. He was also the Fifth Sakya Tridzin, or throne holder. His father Sachen Kunga Nyingpo and his elder brother Sonam Tsemo were the first and second Sakya patriarchs. Drakpa Gyeltsen was instrumental in the early recording and compiling of the Lamdre teachings that form the basis of the Sakya tradition.

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ས་སྐྱ་རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་བསྙེན་ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་གི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་sa skya rje btsun grags pa rgyal mtshanshAk+ya'i dge bsnyen grags pa rgyal mtshanshAk+ya'i dge bsnyen theg pa mchog gi rnal 'byor pa grags pa rgyal mtshanSakya Tridzin5th

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Sachen Kunga NyingpoSönam TsemoJangchub Sempa Dawa GyaltsenTshul khrims gragsSumpa LotsāwaJayasena

Teacher of

Sakya PaṇḍitaGtsang ston brtson 'grus grags paKyergangpa Chökyi Senge

7 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen.

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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