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Sakya
thumb|Sakya Lineage Tree
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 Orders along with the Nyingma and Kagyu.

Vajradhara
thumb|right|18th-century Chinese statue of Vajradhara made with wood and lacquer
Rimé movement
Tibetan Buddhist movement
Sakya Trizin
Buddhist Lama
Margaphala
Lamdré is a meditative system in Tibetan Buddhism rooted in the view that the result of its practice is contained within the path. The name "lamdré" means the "path" () with its fruit ). In Tibet, the lamdré teachings are considered the summum bonum of the Sakya school.
Imperial Preceptor
title of monk officials in Buddhism
Ngor
tibetan Buddhist tradition
Dpon-chen
300px|thumb|Tibet within the Yuan dynasty under the top-level department known as the Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs (Xuanzheng Yuan).
The dpon-chen or pönchen (), literally the "great authority" or "great administrator", was the chief administrator or governor of Tibet based at the Sakya Monastery during the Yuan dynasty. The office was established in the 1260s and functioned as the Tibetan local government serving the Yuan emperors, unlike the Sakya Imperial Preceptors (Dishi) who were active in the Yuan imperial court.