The Great Vehicle Dharma King His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga

 

 

Manjushri Bodhisattva

Sakya Centre, India  

Sakya College at Rajpur, India.

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Tsechen Kunchab Ling, Walden, New York. Click for photos of visit to Tsechen Kunchab Ling.

 

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The Great Vehicle Dharma King
His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga

A true nirmanakaya of Manjushri Bodhisattva, The 41st Patriarch of the Khon lineage of the Sakya tradition was born September 7, 1945 in Tsedong near Shigatse, Tibet. While maintaining temples and dharma centers all over the world, His Holiness lives in Rajpur in Northern India with his wife and two sons.

The main seat of H. H. Sakya Trizin, the Sakya Centre at Tsechen Tenpai Gatsal Monastery, and the Sakya College are located north of New Delhi in Rajpur, Dehradun, India. Another major Sakya monastery exists at Sa Magon in Puruwalla, Himachal Pradesh, a state in northwest India, along with the Sakya Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies.

The seat of H. H. Sakya Trizin in the United States is located at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, the Temple of All-Encompassing Great Compassion, in Walden, New York. Construction began in Spring of 2007 on the main temple shown in the architect's rendering below. His older sister, H.E. Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding (1938-), lives in North America. See DISCOURSES for teachings and outline of classic curriculum at Sakya Institute .

See the book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III for a more detailed biography and H.H. Sakya Trizin's commentary on the accomplishments of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III Wan Ko Yeshe Norbu.

  Northern part of Sakya Monastery, south-central Tibet.