The Office of His Holiness Jigdal Dagchen Sakya and Phuntsok Phodrang

HH Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche's 2008 Trip to New York

June 12:   Arrive in New York City
June 13:   Teaching offered in Flushing, New York City
June 14:   Kunrig Puja in Astoria, New York City (download flyer here (pdf))
June 15:   Long Life Empowerment in Astoria
June 16:   Lama Pema and Lama Kagya are organizing a teaching
June 17:   TBD
 

Special Download:

H.H. Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche's Prayers of the Three Long Life Dieties can be downloaded here: Prayers of 3 Long Life Dieties (pdf).

H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya offers the
precious Sakya Lamdre teachings

Click here to see photos from the Lamdre teaching in Nepal

For the preservation of the profound Sakya Lamdre (Path and Its Fruit) teachings and initiations, H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya will transmit Lamdre to his grandson H.E. Asanga Sakya Rinpoche. This auspicious event will be held at Tharlam Monastery, in Kathmandu, Nepal from October 2 to November 2, 2007. H.H.J.D. Sakya received the precious Lamdre teachings and initiations from his father H.H. Trichen Ngawang Thutop Wangchuk, the last Sakya throne holder in Sakya, Tibet. Additionally, if you are interested in participating in the Lamdre teachings, please download this brochure (pdf).

H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya's Long Life Prayer

Download H.H. Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche's Long Life Prayer here: Long Life Prayer (pdf).

Photo: H.H. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya with grandsons H.E. Avikrita Rinpoche (left) and H.E. Asanga Rinpoche (right)

The Phuntsok Phodrang

The Khön family from which the Sakya lineage is descended is known by three special names. Because the family is descended from Gods of the Realm of Clear Light who entered the human realm, the family came to be known as the “Celestial Race” (lha rigs). Then because a member of this family was born when his father was subjugating a rakshas, a class of harmful spirits, the child was called “Born-amidst-strife” (Khön-par-kyay) and the family was called “the Strife Lineage” (‘khon rigs). Finally, because the first monastery a family member built was on a patch of pale earth (sa skya), the monastery took the name “Sakya,” as did the town, this family (the Sakya Lineage), and their religious order (the Sakyapa).

Prior to the building of Sakya Monastery, the Indian master Atisha was traveling through Tibet. When he saw the patch of pale earth on the hillside where Sakya Monastery would be built, he dismounted and made prostrations to the hillside. He explained that he saw the syllables HRIH, HUNG, and DHIH, indicating many bodhisattva emanations of Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, and Manjushri would come to this region. Accordingly, the Sakya lineage is famed for its bodhisattva emanations, especially of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom.

In the fourteenth century, the Sakya family had as many as four branches. Only one branch now survives, the Duchö. In the early nineteenth century, this branch split into two palaces (phodrangs): the Drolma and the Phuntsok. Members from each palace have served as the Sakya Throne-holders.
 

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