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ISSN 2753-4812
ISSN 2753-4812

Sakya Paṇḍita Series

Tibetan Masters Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen

English (10) | Español (2) | Français (1) | Italiano (1) | Português (2) | བོད་ཡིག (10)

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 and about the great scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (kun dga' rgyal mtshan, 1182–1251):

Advice

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.
Dying & the Bardos Amitābha
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.
Amitābha Dying & the Bardos

Aspiration Prayers

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

Commentaries

This short text by Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1251) explains gaṇacakra practice from the Sakya perspective according to the traditions of the Hevajra and Cakrasamvara tantras. It is among the earliest Tibetan commentaries on the subject but was originally composed to clarify an even earlier work by Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147–1216).
Tsok Restricted

Guru Yoga

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
A guru yoga focusing on the so-called Three Mañjuśrīs of Tibet, i.e., Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364), Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1251) and Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa (1357–1419). Here, Jamyang Khyentse further identifies Longchen Rabjam with the bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi and Tsongkhapa with the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara.
Guru Yoga Nonsectarianism
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche composed separate outer, inner and secret guru yoga practices with the great scholar, Sakya Paṇḍita as their object. Here is the outer practice, complete with visualization, prayer and mantra recitation, in which the focus is on the master as inseparable from Mañjuśrī.
Guru Yoga

Mind Training

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.
Parting from the Four Attachments Advice Damngak Dzö

Praise

by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
This brief paean to the famed scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) is the shortest of at least six such texts composed by Jamyang Khyentse.
Praise

Prayers

by Khenpo Shenga
A supplication to the great Sakya scholar and patriarch Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) calling upon him to assist beings of the degenerate age, especially practitioners of the Dharma. Shenpen Nangwa composed the text while visiting the Sakya monastery of Lhundrup Teng in Derge, also known as Derge Gonchen.
Prayers
by Gatön Ngawang Lekpa
According to his biography, Gatön Ngawang Lekpa recited this prayer to Sakya Paṇḍita together with the famous four-line Shejama (shes bya ma) prayer that he accumulated 4,300,000 times while performing prostrations.
Prayers
Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen

Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen

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Name variants:

Kunga Gyaltsen
Sapaṇ

Further information:

Sakya Research Center Profile
Treasury of Lives Author Bio
BDRC Author Profile (P1056)

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