Sakya Monastery

Sakya Monastery
Tibetan transcription(s)
Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན།
Wylie transliteration: sa skya dgon
Sakya Monastery
Sakya Monastery is located in Tibet
Sakya Monastery
Location within Tibet Autonomous Region
Religion
AffiliationTibetan Buddhism
SectSakya
LeadershipSakya Trizin
Location
LocationShigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Coordinates28°54′18″N 88°1′5″E / 28.90500°N 88.01806°E / 28.90500; 88.01806
Architecture
FounderKhön Könchok Gyalpo
Established1071 (1071)
Kunga Tashi and Incidents from His Life (Abbot of Sakya Monastery, 1688–1711)

Sakya Monastery (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: sa skya dgon pa), also known as Pel Sakya (Tibetan: དཔལ་ས་སྐྱ།, Wylie: dpal sa skya; "White Earth" or "Pale Earth"), is a Buddhist monastery situated in Sa'gya Town (ས་སྐྱ་), Sa'gya County, about 127 kilometres (79 mi) west of Shigatse in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The monastery is considered the seat of the Sakya (or Sakyapa) school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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