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Sakya Monastery

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When Sakya Objects Enter a Museum Gallery

A 2026 Palace Museum exhibition arranged objects linked to Sakya across four themes, pairing the monastery’s history with manuscripts, ritual objects and signs of political exchange.

Phagpa, Sakya, and a Meeting at Liangzhou

A Palace Museum account places Sakya Pandita and his nephew Phagpa at a 13th-century meeting with the Mongol prince Köden, offering a view of how a monastic lineage entered a wider political world.

A Library Built into the Hall

At Sakya Monastery, books are part of the architecture’s history: collections were moved during repairs, while later conservation work turned page-by-page scanning into another way of caring for them.

The Grey, Red and White Walls of Sakya

At Sakya Monastery, colour belongs to a carefully ordered complex: halls, monks’ quarters, walls and watchtowers shape a fortress-like religious landscape on Benbo Mountain.