Jigdral Dagchen SakyaSakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251) was a renowned scholar and Tibetan statesman who staved off a Mongolian invasion by converting Emperor Godan Khan to Buddhism. A luminary of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, his peerless erudition stands ut even among a tradition known for its scholastic adepts, and many of his works have been bedrock texts for study and practice since the thirteenth century. Read More Read Less