Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
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Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (T. sa chen kun dga' snying po ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་) (1092-1158). A master of the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, known for his writings on the Lamdre system.[1]
According to tradition, Manjushri revealed to him the teaching known as the "Parting from the Four Attachments".[1]
He was the first of the five Sakya patriarchs, and the third throne-holder of Sakya Monastery. He was the son of Khön Könchok Gyalpo and the father of Sönam Tsemo and Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen both of whom were his students.[2][3]
His teachers included Mal Lotsawa, Bari Lotsawa, and others.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. sa chen kun dga' snying po.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Sachen_Kunga_Nyingpo, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
- ↑
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
Further reading
Print publications:
- Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University, s.v. "sa chen kun dga' snying po"
- Cyrus Stearns, Luminous Lives: The Story of the Early Masters of the Lam 'bras Tradition in Tibet, Wisdom Publications, 2001.
Web publications:
Sa_chen_kun_dga'_snying_po, Tsadra Commons- Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
- Sachen_Kunga_Nyingpo, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
TBRC Profile- Biography at Treasury of Lives
