Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen was the fifth of the Five Sakya Patriarchs, the men credited with having established the foundation of the Sakya tradition. His father was Sonam Gyeltsen, the younger brother of the great scholar Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyeltsen. He went to Godan Khan’s court with Sakya Paṇḍita as a boy, and went on to play a central role in Tibetan relations with Khubilai Khan and the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. Sakya became the capital of Mongolian-ruled Tibet, and using funds from the new Yuan state Pakpa built the Lhakhang Chenmo at Sakya, establishing what is commonly known as Sakya Monastery. He and Sakya Paṇḍita are also credited with developing a written script so that Buddhist texts could be translated into Mongolian, which had previously not been written. This is named Pakpa Script in his honor.
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Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka: vimalaprabhānāmamūlatantrānusāriṇīdvādaśasāhasrikālaghukālacakratantrarājaṭīkā
A crucial commentary to the Kālacakra Tantra purported to have been written by Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka, the fabled Second King of Shambhala also known as Kulika Puṇḍarīka, though in the Tibetan tradition the work is sometimes attributed to the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara whom Puṇḍarīka was considered to be an emanation of. In the Tibetan tradition it is counted among the Three Cycles of Bodhisattva Commentaries (Sems 'grel skor gsum), which are a trilogy of canonical commentaries attributed to the transcendent Bodhisattvas Vajrapaṇi, Vajragarbha, and Avalokiteśvara on the Cakrasamvara, Hevajra, and Kālacakra Tantras, respectively.
Vimalaprabhā;Vajrayana;Kālacakra;Kalkī Śrī Puṇḍarīka;རིགས་ལྡན་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་;rigs ldan pad+ma dkar po;rigs ldan gnyis pa pad+ma dkar po;རིགས་ལྡན་གཉིས་པ་པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་; Drogön Chögyal Pakpa;འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་;'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa;'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan;chos rgyal 'phags pa;'gro mgon 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan;blo gros rgyal mtshan;འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;Pakpa Lodro Gyaltsen;Chögyal Phagpa;Chögyal Phakpa;Chogyal Phagpa;Drogön Chögyal Phagpa;Drogon Chogyal Phagpa;Drogön Phagpa Lodrö Gyaltsen;Drogon Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen;Shongton Dorje Gyaltsen;ཤོང་སྟོན་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན;shong ston rdo rje rgyal mtshan;shong ston lo tsA ba rdo rje rgyal mtshan;Zhang mdo sde dpal;Mdo sde dpal;Zhang ston Mdo sde dpal;bsdus pa'i rgyud kyi rgyal po dus kyi 'khor lo'i 'grel bshad rtsa ba'i rgyud kyi rjes su 'jug pa stong phrag bcu gnyis pa dri ma med pa'i 'od;བསྡུས་པའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོའི་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྩ་བའི་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་འཇུག་པ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད;vimalaprabhānāmamūlatantrānusāriṇīdvādaśasāhasrikālaghukālacakratantrarājaṭīkā;དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་འོད།
- A Synopsis of the Mahāyāna Uttaratantraśāstra
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Theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi bsdus pa'i don;Drogön Chögyal Pakpa;འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་;'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa;'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan;chos rgyal 'phags pa;'gro mgon 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan;blo gros rgyal mtshan;འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;Pakpa Lodro Gyaltsen;Chögyal Phagpa;Chögyal Phakpa;Chogyal Phagpa;Drogön Chögyal Phagpa;Drogon Chogyal Phagpa;Drogön Phagpa Lodrö Gyaltsen;Drogon Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen;theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos kyi bsdus pa'i don;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན།;ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱུད་བླ་མའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ཀྱི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན།
Other names
- འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ · other names (Tibetan)
- 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- chos rgyal 'phags pa · other names (Wylie)
- 'gro mgon 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- blo gros rgyal mtshan · other names (Wylie)
- Pakpa Lodro Gyaltsen · other names
- Chögyal Phagpa · other names
- Chögyal Phakpa · other names
- Chogyal Phagpa · other names
- Drogön Chögyal Phagpa · other names
- Drogon Chogyal Phagpa · other names
- Drogön Phagpa Lodrö Gyaltsen · other names
- Drogon Phagpa Lodro Gyaltsen · other names
Affiliations & relations
- Sonam Gyeltsen (Father) · familial relation
- Kunga Kyi (Mother) · familial relation
- Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (Uncle) · familial relation
- Sakya · religious affiliation