Sakya Monastery

Sakya Monastery
Sakya Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s); Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན།; Wylie transliteration: sa skya dgon
	Sakya Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Sakya
Leadership	Sakya Trizin
Location
Location	Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region
	Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Geographic coordinates	28°54′18″N 88°1′5″E / 28.90500°N 88.01806°E
Architecture
Founder	Khön Könchok Gyalpo
Date established	1073

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Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth"), is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa'gya County, about 127 kilometres (79 mi) west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region.^[1] The monastery is considered as the seat of the Sakya (or Sakyapa) school of Tibetan Buddhism.^[2]

^ TBRC. sa skya dgon pa. TBRC G880. New York: TBRC, 2011. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=G880
^ Handa, O.C. (2004). Buddhist Monasteries of Himachal. Indus Publishing Company. p. 219. ISBN 978-81-7387-170-2. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

[1] TBRC. sa skya dgon pa. TBRC G880. New York: TBRC, 2011. http://tbrc.org/link?RID=G880

[Handa_2004_p._219-2] Handa, O.C. (2004). Buddhist Monasteries of Himachal. Indus Publishing Company. p. 219. ISBN 978-81-7387-170-2. Retrieved 7 March 2024.

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Sakya Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s) Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན། Wylie transliteration: sa skya dgon
Sakya Monastery
Religion
Affiliation	Tibetan Buddhism
Sect	Sakya
Leadership	Sakya Trizin
Location
Location	Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Geographic coordinates	28°54′18″N 88°1′5″E / 28.90500°N 88.01806°E / 28.90500; 88.01806
Architecture
Founder	Khön Könchok Gyalpo
Date established	1073