Sakya Trizin
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Sakya Trizin or Sa'gya Gongma Rinboqê is the traditional title of the head of the Sakya
Sakya
The Sakya school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug...

 Order of Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
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The Sakya
Sakya
The Sakya school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug...

 Order of Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
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 was founded in 1073, when Khon Konchog Gyalpo (a.k.a Kön Gönqog Gyäbo), a member of Tibet’s noble Khön (Koin) family, established a monastery in the region of Sakya
Sa'gya County
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, Tibet, which became the headquarters of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. Since that time, the leadership of the Sakya Order has descended within the Khön family.

Current Sakya Trizin

The current Sakya Trizin is the 41st Sakya Trizin. His legal name is "Sakya Trizin" and he is referred to as His Holiness Sakya Trizin. His religious name is Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar Trinley Samphel Wangyi Gyalpo. H.H. Sakya Trizin is considered second only to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the spiritual hierarchy of Tibetan Buddhism

Sakya Trizin was born on September 7, 1945 in Tsedong, near Shigatse, Tibet. From his father, Vajradhara Ngawang Kunga Rinchen, he received important initiations and teachings in the Sakya lineage. He began intensive religious study at the age of five. In 1952, he was officially designated as the next Sakya Trizin by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. He continued intensive training from his main teacher Ngawang Lodroe Shenpen Nyingpo and many other famous Tibetan scholars, studying extensively in both the esoteric and exoteric Buddhist traditions. In 1959, at the age of fourteen, he was formally enthroned as head of the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism. In the same year, due to the political situation in Tibet, the Sakya Trizin, his family, and many lamas and monks from the Sakya Monastery relocated to India.

To maintain the unbroken lineage of the Khon family, in 1974 Sakya Trizin consented to requests that he accept Tashi Lhakee, daughter of a noble family from Dege in Kham as his consort. In the same year his first son, H.E.Khondung Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, was born. In 1979, a second son, H.E.Khondung Gyana Vajra Rinpoche was born.

After leaving Tibet, in 1963, the Sakya Trizin re-established the seat of the Sakya Order in Rajpur, India, building a monastery known as Sakya Centre. Since that time, he has worked tirelessly to preserve the thousand-year-old religious heritage of the Sakya Order and to transmit its teachings to succeeding generations. He founded and directly guides a number of institutions, including Sakya Monastery in Rajpur, Sakya Institute, Sakya College, Sakya Nunnery, Sakya College for Nuns, Sakya Tibetan Settlement, Sakya Hospital, dozens of other monasteries in Tibet, Nepal, and India, and numerous Dharma Centers in many countries.

Sakya Trizin is a highly accomplished Buddhist master respected by all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism and teaches widely throughout the world. He has bestowed the extensive Lam Dre teaching cycle, which is the most important teaching of the Sakya Order over 18 times on various continents, and also transmitted major initiation cycles such as Collection of All the Tantras, and the Collection of all the Sadhanas, which contain almost all of the empowerments for the esoteric practices of the various schools of Tibetan Buddhism to hundreds of lineage holders in the next generation of Buddhist teachers. He has trained both of his sons, Khonrig Ratna Vajra Sakya and Khonrig Gyana Vajra Sakya as highly accomplished Buddhist masters, and they both travel widely, teaching Buddhism throughout the world.

The year 2009 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Sakya Trizin’s headship of the Sakya Order. The occasion was celebrated as a Golden Jubilee with extensive celebrations and tributes to his success in preserving and maintaining the Sakya Order of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sakya Trizin lineage

Lharig, the divine generation
According to legend Ciring descended from the Rupadhatu (Realm of Clear Light) to earth.
  • Ciring
  • Yuse
  • Yuring
  • Masang Cije
  • Togsa Pawo Tag
  • Tagpo Ochen
  • Yapang Kye


Khön family, the royal generation
Because the previous generations subjugated the raksha
Raksha
In Hindu mythology, a Rakshas is a kind of evil demon.-Ramayana:According to the Ramayana, the Raksha people were the mythical inhabitants of Sri Lanka who were said to have lived among the Naga, Yakkha, and Deva, and governed Sri Lanka in 2370 BCE...

s (demons), the family became the Family of Conquerors (Khon gyi dung shortened to Khön) and therefore a royal family.
  • Khön Bar Kye
  • Khön Jekundag, minister of Trisong Detsen
    Trisong Detsen
    Trisong Detsän or Trisong Detsen ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན , was the son of Me Agtsom and one of the emperors of Tibet and ruled...

    , student of Padmasambhava
    Padmasambhava
    Padmasambhava ; Mongolian ловон Бадмажунай, lovon Badmajunai, , Means The Lotus-Born, was a sage guru from Oddiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century...

  • Khön Lu'i Wangpo Srungwa
  • Khön Dorje Rinchen
  • Khön Sherab Yontan
  • Khön Yontan Jungne
  • Khön Tsugtor Sherab
  • Khön Gekyab
  • Khön Getong
  • Khön Balpo
  • Khön Shakya Lodro
  • Sherab Tsultrim


Sakya lineage, generations as Buddhist teachers.
Khon Konchog Gyalpo founded the monastery in Sakya in 1073, and therefore the lineage was renamed Sakya.
Name Biographical data Tenure Tibetan name
1. Khon Konchog Gyalpo  1034–1102 1073–1102
2. Bari Lotsawa Rinchen Drag  1040–1111 1103–1110
3. Tsewa Chenpo Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo was a Tibetan spiritual leader and the first of the Five Venerable Supreme Sakya Masters of Tibet. Sachen Kunga Nyinpo was the 3rd Sakya Trizin and son of Khon Konchok Gyalpo who was the first Sakya Trizin and founder of the first Sakya Monastery in Tibet in 1073.Sachen...

 
1092–1158 1111–1158
4. Loppon Rinpoche Sonam Tsemo
Sonam Tsemo
Sonam Tsemo , an important Tibetan sprititual leader and Buddhist scholar, was the second of the so-called Five Venerable Supreme Sakya Masters of Tibet, the founding fathers of the Sakya-tradition.- Life :...

 
1142–1182 1159–1171
5. Jetsun Rinpoche Dragpa Gyaltsen   1147–1216 1172–1215
6. Choeje Sakya Pandita  1182–1251 1216–1243
6a. regent of Sakya Pandita 1243–1264
7. Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Zhogön Qögyä Pagba, Zhogoin Qoigyai Phagspa or Drogön Chögyal Phagpa , born Lochö Gyäcän or Lochoi Gyaicain , was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He became the first vice-king of Tibet and played an important political role...

 
1235–1280 1265–1266
1276–1280
8. Rinchen Gyaltsen  1238–1279 1267–1275
7a. Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Zhogön Qögyä Pagba, Zhogoin Qoigyai Phagspa or Drogön Chögyal Phagpa , born Lochö Gyäcän or Lochoi Gyaicain , was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He became the first vice-king of Tibet and played an important political role...

 2nd reign
1276–1280
9. Dharmapala RakshitaA /琼结巴 or from /萨护罗国/萨霍尔国. Son of 达玛惹扎, grandson of 夏扎布达,(ISBN 7800575462) or son of /恰那多吉? http://www.tibet3.com/lishi/2009-03/25/content_27282.htm 1268–1287 1281–1287
10. Sharpa Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen  1258–1306 1288–1297
11. Sangpo Pal  1262–1324 1298–1324
12. Namkha Legpa Gyaltsen  1305–1343 ca. 1324–1342
13. Jamyang Donyö Gyaltsen  1310-1344 ca. 1342-1344
14. Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen  1312–1375 1344–1347
15. Tawen Lodrö Gyaltsen  1332–1364 1347–1364
16. Tawen Kunga Rinchen  1339–1399 ca. 1364-1399
17. Lopön Chenpo Gushri Lodrö Gyaltsen  1366–1420 1399–1420
18. Jamyang Namkha Gyaltsen  1398–1472 1421–1441
19. Kunga Wangchuk  1418–1462 1442–1462
20. Gyagar Sherab Gyaltsen  1436–1494 1463–1472
21. Dagchen Lodrö Gyaltsen  1444–1495 1473–1495
22. Kunga Sönam  1485–1533 1496–1533
23. Ngagchang Kunga Rinchen  1517–1584 1534–1584
24. Jamyang Sönam Sangpo  1519–1621 1584–1589
25. Dragpa Lodrö  1563–1617 1589–1617
26. Ngawang Kunga Wangyal  1592–1620 1618–1620
27. Ngawang Kunga Sönam  1597–1659 1620–1659
28. Ngawang Sönam Wangchuk  1638–1685 1659–1685
29. Ngawang Kunga Tashi  1656–1711 1685–1711
30. Sönam Rinchen
Sonam Rinchen
Sonam Rinchen may refer to:*Sonam Rinchen , a buddhist geshe from Tibet*Sonam Rinchen , a Tibetan footballer...

 
1705–1741 1711–1741
31. Kunga Lodrö  1729–1783 1741–1783
32. Wangdu Nyingpo
Wangdu Nyingpo
Wangdu Nyingpo, Tuchen was a Patriarch of the Khon Family, the 29th Sakya Tridzin, and the second Padmasambhava of this age.He was a renowned Terton , and was surrounded by tutelary deities and the figures of previous lives.His sons were Padma Dudul Wangchug and Kunga Rinchen who founded the...

 
1763–1809 1783–1806
33. Pema Dudul Wangchuk  1792–1853 1806–1843
34. Dorje Rinchen  1819–1867 1843–1845
35. Tashi Rinchen  1824–1865 1846–1865
36. Kunga Sönam  1842–1882 1866–1882
37. Kunga Nyingpo  1850–1899 1883–1899
38. Dzamling Chegu Wangdu  1855–1919 1901–1915
39. Dragshul Trinle Rinchen  1871–1936 1915–1936
40. Ngawang Thutob Wangdrag  1900–1950 1937–1950
41. Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar  * 1945 1951–

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