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History:

A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche. Translated by David Jackson. Vajra Publications, 2022. (Book Review Video).

The Sakya Throne Holder Lineage. Jeffrey Davis Schoening, Masters thesis, University of Washington, 1983. (Unpublished).

A Waterdrop from the Glorious Sea, Sherab Gyaltsen Amipa. Rikon, Switzerland: Tibetan Institute, 1976.

A Tibetan Principality: The Political System of Sa sKya. C.W. Cassinelli & Robert Ekvall. Cornell University Press, 1969.

Opening of the Dharma, A Brief Explanation of the Essence of the Limitless Vehicles of the Buddha. Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro. Translated by Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Gyatso, Malaysia, October 1984.

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General Bibliography

A Gift of Dharma to Kublai Khan, Chogyal Phagpa, translated by Acharya Lobsang Jamspal and Acharya Manjusiddhartha. Victoria: Victoria Buddhist Dharma Society, 1976.

A Lamp for the Path to Liberation, Dezhung Rinpoche, translated by Richard Barron. Vancouver: 1984. (unpublished. Instructions for Calm Abiding meditation).

The Aphorisms (legs-bshad) of Sa-skya Pandita, J. Kolmas. Proceedings of the Csoma de Koros Memorial Symposium. Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica. Vol.23, pp. 189-203. (1971).

Chandragomin's Twenty Verses on the Buddhist Vow and its Commentary, by the Dalai Lama.

Commentary on the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, Sakya Dragpa Gyaltsen, translated by Dr.Mark Tatz. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1982.

The Dechen Community Teachings Handbook; outlines the sequence of training provided in the Dechen Community's centres and groups. By Jampa Thaye. Bristol: Ganesha Press, (Date ?).

The Discipline of the Novice Monk, Arya Nagarjuna and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. Musoorie: Sakya College, 1975.

The 'Dzam-thang edition of the collected works of Kun-mkhyen Dol-po-pa Shes-rab Rgyal-mtshan: introduction and catalogue, Matthew Kapstein. Delhi, India: Shedrup Books, 1992.

Elegant Sayings, Nagarjuna and Sakya Pandita. Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1977.

Essence of Buddhism, Teachings at Tibet House. (Partings from the Four Clingings, by Kyabgon Sakya Trizin Rinpoche). New Delhi: Tibet House, 1986.

Fortunate to Behold, by H.E. Chogye Trichen Rinpoche, translated into English by Cyrus Stearns. Printed at Sahayogi Press, 1986.

Four Essential Buddhist Texts. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1974. (See Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche).

Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries. H.H. Dalai Lama. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1982. (See the Commentary on "The Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices" p.21).

Glosses on the Oeuvre of bLama 'Phags-pa: I. On the Activities of Sa-skya Pandita, by J. Szerb. Tibetan Studies in Honour of Hugh Richardson. Warminister, Aris and Phillips. pp. 290-300. (1980).

Illuminations, Sakya Pandita, translated by Geshe Wangyal and Brian Cutillo. Novato: Lotsawa, 1988. (Thub pa'i dGongs pa rabtu salba, also known as Illuminating the Sage's Intent by Sakya Pandita).

Jamyang Khyentse's Brief Discourse on the Essence of All the Ways, translated by Michael Aris. Kailash 5.3, 1977, pp. 205 - 28.

Keys to Great Enlightenment, by Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen (The Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices of Togmey Zangpo). Los Angeles: Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications, 1989.

The Letter of a Friend, Arya Nagarjuna. Singapore: The Singapore Buddha Sasana Society, 1976.

The Lojong of Birwapa, by Lowo Lotsawa. Translated by Jampa Thaye. Bristol: Ganesha Press, (Date ?).

The Manjushri Tradition and the Zenpa Zidel, translated by Thutop Tulku and Ngawang Sonam Tenzin. Dehradun: Sakya Centre, 1968.

Nagarjuna's Letter to King Gautamiputra, translated by Ven. Lozang Jamspal, Ven. Ngawang Samten Chophel and Peter Della Santina. Delhi: Motilal Barnarsidass, 1978.

The Nectar of Good Fortune, by Jamgon Ngawang Legpa. Translated by Jampa Thaye (?). Bristol: Ganesha Press, (Date ?).

On Realization of the Nature of Mind, Lama Dezhung Rinpoche, translated by Ken McLeod. Vancouver: New Sun Books, 1979.

One Vehicle, (The Elucidation of Profundities by Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche). Singapore.

The Opening of the Lotus, Lama Sherab Gyaltsen Amipa, London: Wisdom Publications, 1987.

The Opening of the Dharma, Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1974.

Opuscula Tibetana, Arbeiten aus dem Tibet-Institut Rikon-Zurich , Testimonies of Tibetan Tulkus, A Research among Reincarnate Buddhist masters in Exile by Daniel Barlocher. Vol.1: Materials, Vol.2: Appendices. Rikon: Tibet Institut, 1982. (H.H. Sakya Trizin, pp.126-141. H.E. Jigdal Dagchen Sakya Rinpoche, pp.660-667).

Parting From the Four Attachments, translated by H. H. Sakya Trizin and Ngawang Samten Chophel, Singapore: The Singapore Buddha Sasana Society, 1982.

The Questions of the Contemplative Nyimo Gomchen and the Responses of Sakya Pandita,translated by B. Alan Wallace. Victoria: Victoria Buddhist Dharma Society, 1984.

Sa-skya Pandita's Advice for Tibetan Contemplatives, translated by Dan Martin. Tibet Society Bulletin. No. 15, pp.33-44. (1980).

The Sakya Sect of Lamaism, by Li An-che. Journal of the West China Border Research Society, vol.16, pp.72-86. (1945).

The Seven Components of the Training and Purification of Consciousness, Commentary by Ngulchhu Thogme, exposition by Ven. Sakya Khaenpo Sangjay Taendzin, translated by Ven. Bakha Rinpoche and Rev. Shree Narayan Singh. Munger: Dr. Ambedkar Bodhi Kunja Foundation, 1992.

Suelekha of Sakya Pandita, translated by Dr.Madan Singh, Patna: The Bihar Research Society, 1971.

The Teachings of Thang Tong Gyalpo, J. Gyatso (pp.111). Tibetan Studies In Honour of Hugh Richardson, edited by Michael Aris and Aung San Suu Kyi. Proceedings of the International Seminar on Tibetan Studies, Oxford 1979. Aris and Phillips Ltd. Warminster, England.

The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception, Deshung Rinpoche, translated by Jared Rhoton. Boston: Wisdom Publications,1995.

The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception, an oral commentary to the sNang gSum of Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrup by Dezhung Rinpoche, translated by Jared D.Rhoton. New York: Jetsun Sakya Center, 1980. (unpublished).

The Three Visions, Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrup, translated by Lobsang Dagpa, Ngawang Samten Chophel and Jared Rhoton. Singapore: Golden Vase Publications, 1987.

Three Works by Jamgon Sapan: The Three Codes of Buddhist Conduct, Eight Epistles, and a Jewel Treasure of Wise Sayings, including Gorampa's "Life of Sapan." Translated by Jared Rhoton, edited by Victoria Scott, unpublished ms., 1994 (publication forthcoming).

Tibetan Literature, Studies in Genre, edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Roger R. Jackson. (The bsTan rim ["Stages of the Path"] and Similar Graded Expositions of the Bodhisattva Path by David Jackson #13 pp.229). Ithica, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

Tibetan Literature, Studies in Genre, edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Roger R. Jackson. (Tibetan Belles-Lettres: The Influence of Dandin and Ksemendra by Leonard W,J, van der Kuijp #23, pp.393). Ithica, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

Tibetan Literature, Studies in Genre, edited by Jose Ignacio Cabezon and Roger R. Jackson. (Tibetan Commentaries on Indian Sastras by Joe Bransford Wilson #6, pp.125). Ithica, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.

A Treasury of Aphoristic Jewels by Sakya Pandita, translated by J. E. Bosson. Bloomington: Indiana University Publications, Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 92, 1969.

The Vow of Benevolent Conduct, by Samantabhadra. Translated by Mark Tatz. Reprinted from Studies in Indo-Asian Art and Culture, vol.5 (Acharya Raghu Vira Commemoration Volume).

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