Saskya Pandita Quotes
When a broken tank is filled with water, It certainly will leak on every side. Weak men who grow rich Seldom leave an inheritance.
Pandita, Saskya. "A Brief Notice of the Subhashita Ratna Nidhi of Saskya Pandita, with Extracts and Translations." Tibetan Studies, translated by Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, edited by E. Denison Ross, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1911, pp. 93-116.
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Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyeltsen was a Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers. Künga Gyeltsen is generally known simply as Sakya Pandita, 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.