Item: Teacher (Lama) - Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

Sakya Pandita, Kunga Gyaltsen Pal Zangpo (1182-1251), wearing a tall red hat, the sixth throne holder of Sakya, great grandson of Khon Konchog Gyalpo. Sakya Pandita is accompanied by his nephew Chogyal Pagpa. (See a portion of the painting set).

Sa kya pan di ta kun ga gyal tsen Biographical Details

"With wide eyes perceiving all things, and compassionately achieving the good of all beings, having power performing acts beyond thought; Guru Manjunata, to your feet I bow my head." (Sakya liturgical verse to Sapan).

According to Sakya tradition, Sakya Pandita reached complete enlightenment in the realm of buddha Akshobhya and now resides as the buddha Vimalashri in the eastern direction.

Jeff Watt

Thematic Sets
Teacher: Chogyal Pagpa Main Page
Collection of RMA: Best of Collection 2
Painting Set: Mahakala & Margapala [29]
Tradition: Sakya Main Page
Iconography: Monastic Appearance
Teacher: Sakya Pandita (Masterworks)
Subject: Margapala Lineage Masterworks
Teacher: Sakya (Masterworks)
Collection of RMA: Painting Masterworks Page
Collection of RMA: Persons Masterworks
Subject: Teacher Painting Page
Teacher: Sakya Pandita (Guruyoga Catalogue List)
Subject: Patchwork Robes
Subject: Margapala Lineage Paintings (Figure & Composition Types)
Subject: Hats (Sakya)
Tradition: Sakya Religious Context
Subject: Hats (Pandita Hat)
Tradition: Sakya Teachers
Teacher: Two Main Figures (Composition)
Iconography: Monastics, Three Visual Types
Subject: Masterworks Description (Painting)
Tradition: Sakya Founders
Teacher: Chogyal Pagpa Masterworks
Teacher: Sakya Pandita, Kunga Gyaltsen
Tradition: Sakya, Lineage Teacher Painting Masterworks (Rubin Museum)
Subject: Margapala Sets (Two Figures)
Subject: Two Red Ones
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery 5
Subject: Hat Videos