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and which are reputed to have been founded there directly by Lo-ptin 

 himself, who entered Bhutan via ^Zhas-ma gang and left it by mDung- 

 tsang, and at (^gon-tshal phuX" are still shown his footpi-ints on a 

 rock. 



The Sakya-pa sect. 



The Sakya-pa takes its name from the Sa-kya Monastery in 

 Western Tibet, founded by AKhon-Jkon-wjchhog- 

 The S«%a-i)a sect, ^gy^ipo. The name Sa-kya^ refers to the light 

 Its title. yellow colour of the scanty soil in that locality, 



J . ... which is rocky and almost bare of vegetation. The 



founder mixed together the "old" and "new" dis- 

 pensations in regard to the tantras, calling his tantrik system gsang- 

 sngags-yf*ar-nying, or "the new-old occult mystery," The Nyingmapa 

 books adopted by the Sakya-pa are called Dorjc phurpai chhoga ; 

 and from the newer school were taken Dem-chhok, Dorje-kando, 

 Den-zhi, Maha-maha-ma-yab, Sangy^ thopa, and Dorje-dutsi. Its 

 special meditative system is "Lam-/ibras." Its guardian demons are 

 »?gon-po-gur or " The Guardian of the Tent " and mgon-po-zhal. Its 

 ,^ , , hat is called Sa-zhu. Now, however, the Sakva 



J.ts sub* SGCtS '' 



sect is scarcely distinguishable from the Nyingmapa. 

 Its sub-sects are as follow : — 



The Ngor-pa, founded by Gun-gah Zang-po, issued from the 



„ _ Sakya-pa at the time of Tsongkhapa. Its founder 



discarded the Nynimapa element in its tantrik 



system, retaining only the "new." It has many monasteries in 



Kham. 



The J6nang-po, issued from the Sakya-pa, in the person of Je-kun- 



_. gah-tol chhok, who was re-incarnated some centuries 



later as the great historian lama Taranath, now the 



highest incarnate lama of the Mongols and Chinese. This latter lama 



built the monastery of Phiintsholing about a mile to 



the north of Jonang in Upper Tsang, which was 



one of the many seized by the great Dalai Lama L6-zang gyatsho 



and forcibly converted into a Gelukpa institution. This sect does not 



practically differ from the Ngor-pa. The distinction is only one of 



founders. 



The Nyingmapa peculiarities have already been indicated in a 

 general way. Further details will be found under 



SiSm^""'^* ^°*^'^'^ *^^^ ^^^^ ^* Sikhim Lamaism. It was the Nyingma 

 form of Lamaism which first found its way into 

 Sikhim about 250 years ago. 



' Sa-«kya-pa. 



