The Sakya Tradition largely depends upon the work of Drogmi Lotsawa Shakya Yeshe, one of the most famous of the eleventh century translators whose work was so crucial in restoring authentic Buddhadharma to Tibet after the collapse of the Tibetan Empire in the mid-9th century. It is appropriate, therefore, that this blog begins with a statement of Drogmi's found in the Fifth Dalai Lama's hagiography of the famed eclectic yogi and scholar, Tsarchen Losal Gyatso:
The sayings of Drogmi Lotsawa state, "Even if one's Guru has gone to hell, if one supplicates him thinking he is a Buddha, the blessings of a Buddha will enter one's mind. Since there is also an inseparable interconnection in the ultimate nature of both of them [Guru and disciple], it is certainly true."
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