Sakya
A living tradition within Vajrayāna. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Sakya is a living tradition within Vajrayāna. Also written Sa skya pa, Sakyapa.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Khön Könchok Gyalpo (1034–1102). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Sources conflict on the year: Calkowski gives the founding of Sakya monastery as 1073; the Encyclopedia.com Tibetan Buddhism entry gives 1071. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions gives the founder Konchog Gyalpo's dates as 1034–1102 and places the school among the three lineages of the Later Transmission. No year is asserted because the sources disagree.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Sakya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-sakya.
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title = {Sakya},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.