'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa

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འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་
Drogön Chögyal Pakpa(1235 - 1280) 

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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Text People Deity/Cycle/Genre Total pages Folios
མཎྜལ་རྒྱས་པ་ཚོམ་བུ་སོ་བདུན་མ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་བབས་, Vol. 13, 541-543.)
Author: 'gro mgon chos rgyal 'phags pa
Tertön: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Deity: sgrol ma yid bzhin 'khor lo;tshe dpag med;gtsug tor rnam rgyal ma;tshe lha rnam gsum
Cycle: bla ma tshe lha rnam gsum skor
Genre: Offering Rituals - mchod sbyin
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