Tibetan Sakya Pandita

This book tells of Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (1182-1251), the most famous patriarch of Tibetan Buddhist school Sakyapa, that dominates Tibet for several centuries. He is held in the tradition to have been an emanation of Manjusri, the embodiment of the wisdom of all the Buddhas.

After that he also known as a great scholar in Tibet, Mongolia, China and India and was proficient in the five great sciences of Buddhist philosophy, medicine, grammar, dialectics and sacred Sanskrit literature as well as the minor sciences of rhetoric, synonymies, poetry, dancing and astrology. He is considered to be the fourth Sakya Forefather and sixth Sakya Trizin and one of the most important figures in the Sakya lineage.