Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen
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Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (Tib. ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་, Wyl. sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan) (1182-1251) — one of the five Sakya patriarchs and the nephew of Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen. He was one of the greatest scholars in Tibetan history and one of the so-called 'Three Mañjughoshas of Tibet'. He was the uncle of Chögyal Pakpa.
Writings
- Clear Differentiation of the Three Sets of Vows (སྡོམ་གསུམ་རབ་དབྱེ་, sdom gsum rab dbye)
- Elucidating the Sage's Intent (ཐུབ་པ་དགོངས་པ་རབ་གསལ་, thub pa dgongs pa rab gsal)
- Sakya Lekshé (ས་སྐྱ་ལེགས་བཤད་, sa skya legs bshad)
- Sapan Khenjuk (མཁས་འཇུག་, mkhas 'jug)
- Treasury of Valid Reasoning (ཚད་མ་རིགས་པའི་གཏེར་, tshad ma rigs pa'i gter)
Further Reading
- David P. Jackson, 'Commentaries on the Writings of Sa skya Pandita: A Bibliographical Sketch' in The Tibet Journal, Vol.VIII, No.3, Autumn 1983
- Migmar Tsering, 'Sakya Pandita: Glimpses of His Three Major Works' in The Tibet Journal, VOL.XIII,1, Spring 1988
- Sakya Pandita, Ordinary Wisdom: Sakya Pandita's Treasury of Good Advice, translated by John T. Davenport, Boston: Wisdom, 2000
- Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen, A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes: Essential Distinctions among the Individual Liberation, Great Vehicle, and Tantric Systems, translated by Jared Rhoton, New York: SUNY, 2002
