Dzongpa Kunga Gyaltsen (1382-1446) is the founder of the Dzongpa sub-lineage of the Sakya school. His father was Onpo Norpel. He was a close disciple of Tegchen Chogyal Kunga Tashi Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo (1349-1425) of the Lhakang Lhabrang, and received the ordination name Jamyang Dragpal Pal. Together with Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, the founder of the […]
Jamyang Konchog Lhundrup is the tenth abbot of Ngor Monastery. […]
Buddhaśrī, also known as Drubchen Sanggye Pel, was born in 1339 at the monastery of Gopu in the Dok region of Lato Jang. His father was Guśrī Peljor Lekpa, then the abbot of Gopu. His mother was Drolma Bum. From an early age, Buddhaśrī received the vows of a lay practitioner from Lama Sakya Zangpo. […]
Salo Jhampai Dorje Kunga Sonam, also known as Sakya Lotsāwa Jampai Dorje, was born in Tsedong. His father was Namkha Tashi Gyaltsen from the Ducho Labrang. His mother was Machik Hormo Tseten. At the age of six, he received the Hevajra and Vajrakīlaya from Dagchen Gyagarpa Sherab Gyaltsen, the twentieth Sakya throne holder. He received […]
Dagchen Lodrö Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo, the twenty-first Sakya throne holder, was born in a village named Chammo Moyang near Sakya in 1444. His father was the eighteenth Sakya throne holder Jamyang Namkha Gyaltsen and his mother was Machick Pakjung Gyalmo. His elder brother is Sherab Gyaltsen, the twentieth Sakya throne holder. Dagchen Lodrö Gyaltsen was […]
Dagchen Gyagarpa Sherab Gyaltsen is the twentieth Sakya throneholder. His father was Jamyang Namkha Gyaltsen, the eighteenth Sakya throneholder. His mother was Machik Peljung Gyalmo. […]
Lopön Kunga Wangchuk is the nineteenth Sakya throneholder. […]
Jamyang Namkha Gyaltsen was born in 1398. His father was Kunga Gyaltsen and mother was Mahick Namkha Gyalmo. As a child, he had a prodigious capacity for learning. He memorized a 200-page text known as the Two Analyses within two days. Therefore, he earned the title of Jamyang Chenpo, or Great Mañjuśrī. He was also […]
Gushri Lodrö Gyaltsen, also known as Tokla Dragpa Lodrö Gyaltsen is the seventeenth Sakya throneholder. He took ordination from Lama Dhampa Sonam Gyaltsen, the fourteenth Sakya throneholder. He studied with Tawen Kunga Rinchen, the sixteenth Sakya throneholder. […]
A holder of the Vajrayoginī and Lamdré Lobshed Lineages, Jetsun Doringpa Chenpo received ordination from Drathangpa Sherab Dawa. He stayed for many years at an isolated hermitage or retreat site named Kha’u Drak Dzong. Later, he imparted instructions of this Vajrayogini lineage to Tsarchen Losal Gyatso, the founder of the Tsar sub-lineage of the Sakya […]