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Sakya Pandita

Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen

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Name variants:

Kunga Gyaltsen
Sapaṇ

Further Information:

You who have the eye of wisdom that sees all that is knowable,

The compassion that brings about the welfare of all beings,

The strength that accomplishes inconceivable enlightened action,

Lama, you who are Mañjuśrī in person, at your feet I pray!

A series of texts by the great scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (kun dga' rgyal mtshan) (1182–1251):

Mind Training

Sakya Pandita’s Instruction on Parting from the Four Attachments | Mind Training (Lojong)

A brief commentary on Parting From the Attachments (zhen pa bzhi bral), the famous four-line instruction originally revealed by Mañjuśrī to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), Sakya Paṇḍita's great uncle.

Aspiration Prayers

Prayer to Recite while Prostrating | Aspiration Prayers

This short prayer, which tradition attributes to Sakya Paṇḍita, relates the various elements of prostration to aspirations for successfully following the path to enlightenment.

Advice

A Wondrous Instruction for the Moment of Death | Dying & the Bardos

Sakya Paṇḍita provides the outline of a very simple meditation on Amitābha for the moment of death, summarizing the preliminaries, main part, conclusion and benefits of the practice according to the oral tradition of his uncles and their father.

Meditation on Amitābha | Amitābha & Sukhāvatī

Following some lines of the Prayer of Good Actions (bzang spyod smon lam), Sakya Paṇḍita here offers a simple visualisation centred upon Buddha Amitābha, to be practised each day before falling asleep in order to secure rebirth in the Sukhāvatī pure-land.

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