Sakya Trizin

The 42nd Sakya Trizin,
Ratna Vajra Rinpoche
The 41st Sakya Trizin,
longest reigning Sakya Trizin

Sakya Trizin (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་ཁྲི་འཛིན།, Wylie: sa skya khri 'dzin "Sakya Throne-Holder") is the traditional title of the head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.[1]

The Sakya school was founded in 1073CE,[2] when Khön Könchog Gyalpo (Tibetan: འཁོན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་པོ།, Wylie: 'khon dkon mchog rgyal po ; 1034–1102), a member of Tibet’s noble Khön family, established a monastery in the region of Sakya, Tibet, which became the headquarters of the Sakya order.[3] Since that time, its leadership has descended within the Khön family.

The 41st Sakya Trizin, whose reign spanned more than fifty years, was the longest reigning Sakya Trizin[4]. The current Sakya Trizin is the 42nd Sakya Trizin Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, officially known as Kyabgon Gongma Trizin Rinpoche. [5]

Origin of Khön

Lharig, the divine generation

According to legend Ciring descended from the Rupadhatu (Realm of Clear Light) to earth.
  • Ciring
  • Yuse
  • Yuring
  • Masang Cije
  • Togsa Pawo Tag
  • Tagpo Ochen
  • Yapang Kye

Khön family, the royal generation Because previous generations subjugated the rakshasas (demons), the family became the Family of Conquerors (Wylie: khon gyi dung , shortened to Khön)[6] and therefore a royal family.

  • Khön Bar Kye
  • Khön Jekundag, minister of Trisong Detsen, student of Padmasambhava
  • Khön Lu'i Wangpo Srungwa
  • Khön Dorje Rinchen
  • Khön Sherab Yontan
  • Khön Yontan Jungne
  • Khön Tsugtor Sherab
  • Khön Gekyab
  • Khön Getong
  • Khön Balpo
  • Khön Shakya Lodro
  • Sherab Tsultrim

Sakya Trizin Lineage

Sakya lineage, generations as Buddhist teachers.[7]

Khon Konchog Gyalpo founded the monastery in Sakya in 1073, and therefore the lineage was renamed Sakya.[8]
Name Biographical data Tenure Tibetan name
1.Khon Konchog Gyalpo1034–11021073–1102Tibetan: འཁོན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་པོ།, Wylie: khon dkon mchog rgyal po
2.Rinchen Drag1040–11111103–1110Tibetan: བ་རི་ལོ་ཙ་བ་རིན་ཆེན་གྲགས།, Wylie: ba ri lo tsa ba rin chen grags
3.Sachen Kunga Nyingpo1092–11581111–1158Tibetan: ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ།, Wylie: sa chen kun dga’ snying po
4.Sonam Tsemo1142–11821159–1171Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་རྩེ་མོ།, Wylie: bsod nams rtse mo
5.Dragpa Gyaltsen1147–12161172–1215Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།, Wylie: grags pa rgyal mtshan
6.Sakya Pandita1182–12511216–1243Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: sa skya pandi ta kun dga’ rgyal mtshan
6a.regent of Sakya Pandita1243–1264Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: sa skya pandi ta kun dga’ rgyal mtshan
7.Drogön Chögyal Phagpa1235–12801265–1266
1276–1280		Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: chos rgyal 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan
8.Rinchen Gyaltsen1238–12791267–1275Tibetan: རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: rin chen rgyal mtshan
7a.Drogön Chögyal Phagpa 2nd reign1276–1280Tibetan: ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: chos rgyal 'phags pa blo gros rgyal mtshan
9.Dharmapala Rakshita[9]1268–12871281–1287Tibetan: དྷརྨ་པཱ་ལ་རཀཥི་ཏ།, Wylie: d+harma pA la rakaShi ta
10.Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen1258–13061288–1297Tibetan: ཤར་པ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: shar pa 'jam dbyangs rin chen rgyal mtshan
11.Sangpo Pal1262–13241298–1324Tibetan: བཟང་པོ་དཔལ།, Wylie: bzang po dpal
12.Namkha Legpa Gyaltsen1305–1343ca. 1324–1342Tibetan: ནམ་མཁའ་ལེགས་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: nam mkha' legs pa'i rgyal mtshan
13.Jamyang Donyö Gyaltsen1310–1344ca. 1342-1344Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་དོན་ཡོད་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: 'jam dbyangs don yod rgyal mtshan
14.Lama Dampa Sönam Gyaltsen1312–13751344–1347Tibetan: བླ་མ་དམ་པ་བསོད་ནམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: bla ma dam pa bsod nams rgyal mtshan
15.Tawen Lodrö Gyaltsen1332–13641347–1364Tibetan: ཏ་དབེན་བློ་གྲོས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།, Wylie: ta dben blo gros rgyal mtshan
16.Tawen Kunga Rinchen1339–1399ca. 1364-1399Tibetan: ཏ་དབེན་ཀུན་དགའ་རིན་ཆེན།, Wylie: ta dben kun dga' rin chen
17.Lopön Chenpo Gushri Lodrö Gyaltsen1366–14201399–1420Wylie: slob dpon chen po gu shri blo gros rgyal mtshan
18.Jamyang Namkha Gyaltsen1398–14721421–1441Wylie: 'jam dbyangs nam mkha' rgyal mtshan
19.Kunga Wangchuk1418–14621442–1462Wylie: kun dga' dbang phyug
20.Gyagar Sherab Gyaltsen1436–14941463–1472Wylie: rgya gar ba shes rab rgyal mtshan
21.Dagchen Lodrö Gyaltsen1444–14951473–1495Wylie: bdag chen blo gros rgyal mtshan
22.Kunga Sönam1485–15331496–1533Wylie: sa skya lo tsa ba kun dga' bsod nams
23.Ngagchang Kunga Rinchen1517–15841534–1584Wylie: sngags 'chang kun 'dga rin chen
24.Jamyang Sönam Sangpo1519–16211584–1589Wylie: 'jam dbyangs bsod nams bzang po
25.Dragpa Lodrö1563–16171589–1617Wylie: grags pa blo gros
26.Ngawang Kunga Wangyal1592–16201618–1620Wylie: ngag dbang kun dga' dbang rgyal
27.Ngawang Kunga Sönam1597–16591620–1659Wylie: ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams
28.Ngawang Sönam Wangchuk1638–16851659–1685Wylie: ngag dbang bsod nams dbang phyug
29.Ngawang Kunga Tashi1656–17111685–1711Wylie: ngag dbang kun dga' bkra shis
30.Sönam Rinchen1705–17411711–1741Wylie: bsod nams rin chen
31.Kunga Lodrö1729–17831741–1783Wylie: kun dga' blo gros
32.Wangdu Nyingpo1763–18091783–1806Wylie: dbang sdud snying po
33.Pema Dudul Wangchuk1792–18531806–1843Wylie: pad ma bdud 'dul dbang phyug
34.Dorje Rinchen1819–18671843–1845Wylie: rdo rje rin chen
35.Tashi Rinchen1824–18651846–1865Wylie: bkra shis rin chen
36.Kunga Sönam1842–18821866–1882Wylie: kun dga' bsod nams
37.Kunga Nyingpo1850–18991883–1899Wylie: kun dga' snying po
38.Dzamling Chegu Wangdu1855–19191901–1915Wylie: 'dzam gling che rgu dbang 'dud
39.Dragshul Trinle Rinchen1871–19361915–1936Tibetan: དྲག་ཤུལ་འཕྲིན་ལས་རིན་ཆེན།, Wylie: drag shul 'phrin las rin chen, ZYPY: Chagxü Chinlä Rinqên
40.Ngawang Thutob Wangdrag1900–19501937–1950Tibetan: ངག་དབང་མཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་དྲག, Wylie: ngag dbang mthu stobs dbang drag
41.Ngawang Kunga Tegchen Palbar *see Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga* 19451951–2017Tibetan: ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་ཐེག་ཆེན་དཔལ་འབར་འཕྲིན་ལས་བསམ་འཕེལ་དབང་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ།, Wylie: ngag dbang kun dga' theg chen dpal 'bar trin lé sam pel wang gyi gyel po
42.Ratna Vajra Rinpoche* 19742017–Tibetan: ངག་དབང་ཀུན་དགའ་བློ་གྲོས་དབང་ཕྱུག་རིན་ཆེན་འཇིགས་མེད་འཕྲིན་ལས།, Wylie: nNgag dBang Kun dGa' Blo Gros Rin Chen 'Jigs Med 'Phrin Las
The 42nd Sakya Trizin, the first to be enthroned under the new system

New Succession System

On 11 December 2014, a new throne holder succession system was announced during the 23rd Great Sakya Mönlam prayer festival on a resolution passed by the Dolma Phodrang and Phuntsok Phodrang, where members of both Phodrang will serve the role of Sakya Trizin in one three year term, according to their seniority and qualification.[10][11]

Ratna Vajra Rinpoche was enthroned on 9th March 2017 as the 42nd Sakya Trizin, the first to be enthroned under the new system.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Holy Biographies of the Great Founders of the Glorious Sakya Order, translated by Venerable Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen, Ani Kunga Chodron and Victoria Huckenpahler. Published by Sakya Phuntsok Ling Publications, Silver Spring MD. June 2000.
  2. ↑ http://tibet.net/about-tibet/glimpses-on-history-of-tibet/
  3. ↑ The History of the Sakya Tradition, by Chogay Trichen. Manchester Free Press, U.K. 1983.
  4. ↑ shttp://www.hhthesakyatrizin.org/currentnews_jubilee.html
  5. 1 2 http://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Kyabgon_Gongma_Trizin_Rinpoche
  6. ↑ "{title}". Archived from the original on 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2017-06-07.
  7. ↑ Drogmi Buddhist Institute, Throneholders of Sakya
  8. ↑ http://drogmi.org/the-sakya-tradition/the-sakya-lineage
  9. ↑ A བ༹ཕྱོང་རྒྱས་པ།/琼结巴 or from ས་ཧོར།/萨护罗国/萨霍尔国. Son of 达玛惹扎, grandson of 夏扎布达,( ISBN 7800575462) or son of ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ།/恰那多吉?
  10. ↑ http://www.hhthesakyatrizin.org/pdfs/HHSakyaTrizin_2014Announcement.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  11. ↑ http://sakyatrizinenthronement.org/

References

  • Penny-Dimri, Sandra. (1995). "The Lineage of His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga." The Tibet Journal. Vol. XX, No. 4 Winter 1995, pp. 64–92. ISSN 0970-5368.
  • Trizin, Sakya. Parting from the Four Attachments. Shang Shung Publications, 1999.
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