WRITER

Sakya Pandita

1182 - 1251

Sakya Pandita

Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen (Tibetan: ས་སྐྱ་པཎ་ཌི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན, Wylie: Sa skya Paṇḍita Kun dga’ rgyal mtshan ) who lived from (1 April 1182 – 28 December 1251) was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers (Wylie: sa skya gong ma lnga). Künga Gyeltsen is generally known simply as Sakya Pandita (or Sapan for short), a title given to him in recognition of his scholarly achievements and knowledge of Sanskrit. He is held in the tradition to have been an emanation of Manjusri, the embodiment of the wisdom of all the Buddhas. Sakya Pandita was also known as a great scholar in Tibet, India, Mongolia and China 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, music, dancing and astrology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sakya Pandita is the 2,322nd most popular writer (up from 3,268th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from China (up from 758th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Chinese Writer.

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Among writers, Sakya Pandita ranks 2,322 out of 7,302. Before him are Lydia Davis, Wahb ibn Munabbih, August Derleth, Li Yu, Berthold Auerbach, and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. After him are Andrey Kurbsky, Johann Peter Hebel, Cornell Woolrich, Bella Rosenfeld, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, and Wieland Wagner.

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Lydia Davis
1947 - Present
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 2,316
Wahb ibn Munabbih
655 - 738
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 2,317
August Derleth
1909 - 1971
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 2,318
Li Yu
1610 - 1680
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 2,319
Berthold Auerbach
1812 - 1882
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 2,320
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1715 - 1769
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 2,321
Sakya Pandita
1182 - 1251
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 2,322
Andrey Kurbsky
1528 - 1583
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 2,323
Johann Peter Hebel
1760 - 1826
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 2,324
Cornell Woolrich
1903 - 1968
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 2,325
Bella Rosenfeld
1889 - 1944
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 2,326
Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
1918 - 1970
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 2,327
Wieland Wagner
1917 - 1966
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 2,328

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1182, Sakya Pandita ranks 10. Before him are Alexios IV Angelos, Alexios I of Trebizond, Maria of Montpellier, Lutgardis, Accursius, and Minamoto no Yoriie. After him are Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay, and Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany. Among people deceased in 1251, Sakya Pandita ranks 6. Before him are Oghul Qaimish, Yesü Möngke, Godan Khan, William of Modena, and William II, Count of Flanders. After him are Berthold, and Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine.

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Alexios IV Angelos
POLITICIAN
1182 - 1204
HPI: 72.69
Rank: 4
Alexios I of Trebizond
POLITICIAN
1182 - 1222
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 5
Maria of Montpellier
POLITICIAN
1182 - 1213
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 6
Lutgardis
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1182 - 1246
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 7
Accursius
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1182 - 1260
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 8
Minamoto no Yoriie
POLITICIAN
1182 - 1204
HPI: 63.12
Rank: 9
Sakya Pandita
WRITER
1182 - 1251
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 10
Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1182 - 1218
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 11
Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany
POLITICIAN
1182 - 1241
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 12