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The Sakya (, "pale earth") school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug. It is one of the Red Hat sects along with the Nyingma and Kagyu.
Usage examples of "sakya".
Chang-ti, the name of the Hindu God, Sakya, given by the Chinese, 551-m.
Kapa, the great reformer of Buddhism in Tibet, was standing on the day of his entry into the monastery of Sakya at the tail of a line of novices.
The only historic Buddha is Sakya Muni, or Gotama, who was born at Kapila about six centuries before Christ.
His wife is a member of the most ancient Tibetan noble family of Sakya, whose head and his wife share with the Dalai Lama the privilege of being carried in a litter.
A young Indian prince, named Sakya Muni, afflicted by the miseries of human life which he beheld, cast aside his wealth and his royal destiny, became a recluse, and devoted his life to the study of religion.
It is not easy to account for the rise of the surname Gotama in the Sakya family, as Oldenberg acknowledges.