Sakya Pandita Künga Gyeltsen

Resource ID	P407
Date of Birth	1182	Date of Death	1251
External links	BUDA P1056

Name Variants

sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan

Teachers

[[kha che paN chen shAkya shrI]]
[[spyi bo lhas pa byang chub 'od]]
zhu ston rdo rje skyabs

Notes

Sakya Tridzin 6, fourth of the Five Sakya Patriarchs. Nephew of Sakya Jetsün Drakpa Gyeltsen and Sönam Tsemo.

Sakya Pandita received the Shangpa teachings from Chiwo Lhepa Jangchup Ö, one of his three main ordination masters. He was also a spiritual heir of the Rechung Kagyü teachings transmitted by Burgom Nakpo then Mokchokpa Rinchen Tsöndrü, perhaps following Shutön Dorjé Kyab, another of his three masters, who transmitted the teachings of Mokchokpa ([http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW2DB4570_C0A2EE sdom pa gsum gyi rab tu dbye ba'i bstan bcos, p.482)