Sakya Pandita

The authorities additionally record the headings Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyeltsen and Sa skya Paṇḍita. His recorded language was Tibetan. His recorded confession was Sakya.

He was the child of Palchen Opo and Ma Chik Gar Pu Ma Nyitri Cham. Other recorded relations include Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen.

He trained under Drakpa Gyeltsen, Śākyaśrībhadra, Sugatasri and Balpo Sangha Shri.

As a teacher, Sakya Pandita is recorded in connection with Sharpa Dorjé Özer, Lama Dra Tangpa, Gar Dampa Chodingpa, Khenchen Changchub Palzangpo, Kham Gom Changchub Pal and Khampa Wön. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.

6 works under this name are catalogued by Open Library.

Sakya Kongma Series. Overview of Tantra and Related Works. Elegant Sayings. Stages of the Buddha's Teachings. Illuminations C. Ordinary Wisdom.

10 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Sakya Pandita and the Status of Concepts, Philosophy East and West, 2006. The Dharma’s Gatekeepers. Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet, by Jonathan C. Gold, Religions of South Asia, 2012. The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet. By Jonathan C. Gold, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2009. �TREATISE ON MUSIC� BY SAKYA PANDITA AS A VALUABLE SOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING MEDIEVAL TIBETAN VOCAL SYSTEM AND SINGING TECHNIQUES, SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS Proceedings, 2015. The Khon Clan and the Sakyapas, Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2021. Introductory Remarks to Tibetan Traditional Writings on Music Theory (11th-19th centuries), Oriental Studies, 2018. Rahul Sankrityayan, Tsetan Phuntsog and Tibetan Textbooks for Ladakh in 1933, HIMALAYA, 2020. Death for a Buddhist Dreamer: Identity and Mortality in Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen’s Autobiographical Dream Narrative, Religions, 2021. Tibetan «Subhashita», its Mongol versions and translations as a multi-code linguocultural phenomenon: the case of the Zaya Pandita’s Oirat translation, Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2026. Buddhist terminology of the Oirat version of “Subhashita” and “Hymn to 21 Tara”, Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2025.

This heading is established in VIAF (12433277). Those registers additionally record the form Sakya Pandita 1182-1251.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 19 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.