Sakya Monastery preserves relics and ancient texts

Since the launch of a digitization project for the protection and utilization of ancient texts in the Sakya Monastery of the Xizang autonomous region in 2012, significant efforts and achievements have been made in ancient text preservation.

Located in the Sakya county of Shigatse, the monastery was built by Khon Konchok Gyalpo in 1073 and was expanded in the 13th century. It is the ancestral monastery of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism.

There is a "great wall" at the monastery that holds more than 84,000 volumes of ancient Tibetan manuscripts, covering various fields such as Buddhist scriptures, literature, history, astronomy, medicine and mathematics.