• Debajit Chatterjee

Sakya School is one of the important schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The Sakya tradition was initiated by Khon Konchog Gyalpo. In eleventh century the two brothers- Khon Rog Sherab Tshultim and Khon Konchog Gyalpo realized that the practice of old esoteric teachings of Nyingma tradition had become vague and corrupted. Khon Sherab Tshultim encouraged his younger brother to go to Drogmi Lotsawa Shakya Yeshe (992-1074 C.E.) at Mangkhar to study the new esoteric doctrine. Drogmi Lotsawa agreed to accept him as his disciple and bestowed his blessing on him. Besides these two teachers, he followed several other masters like Mal Lotsawa, Bari Lotsawa, Ma Lotsawa, Puhrang Lotsawa etc. and later, he himself became the master of all tantric teachings. In the Water Buffalo year of the first cycle of the sixty years cycle (1073 C.E.), Khon Konchog Gyalpo founded the monastery which became the nucleus of Sakya tradition in Tibet. The Sakya tradition originated with the establishment of this monastery at the place called Sakya which means “grey earth” in central Tibet. Since then the followers of this tradition have been known as Sakyapa.

Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, Gelug, Padmasambhava, Santaraksita, Atisa, Hevajra, Guhyasamaj, Mahakala

"Origin of Sakya School in Tibetan Buddhism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.376-381, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907U79.pdf

"Origin of Sakya School in Tibetan Buddhism", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp376-381, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907U79.pdf