ས་སྐྱ་

JH-ENG

S#a-g#ya (White Earth) Order

OT

[2888] 1) sa mdog dkar zhing skya ba/ ... 2) rdzong zhig bod rang skyong ljongs kyi gzhis ka rtse'i lho nub ngos su yod/ rdzong mi dmangs srid gzhung sa skya zhol la yod/ ...

JV

pandita, b.1182, grey earth, a monastery

IW, RY

Sakya school

IW

1) white/ light earth; 

2) ས་སྐྱ་རྫོང་ (/; 2) *

RY

The seat of the * (ས་སྐྱ་, founded in 1073 by Könchok Gyalpo of the Khön clan. Its main temple, the impressive Great Emanated Temple (sprul pa'i gtsug lag khang chen mo), was erected in 1268 and is the only building, among over a hundred temples in Sakya's monastic complex, which survived the Cultural Revolution. [MR]. 

1) Sakya. One of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It was established in the eleventh century by Drogmi Lotsawa ('brog mi lo tsa ba), a disciple of the Indian master Virupa. 

2) Sakya; The seat of the *, Sakya was founded by Könchok Gyalpo of the powerful Khön family, in 1073. county in 21th cent Tibet.