In 2003, monks at Tibe Sakya Monastery broke open a sealed wall and discovered 84000 ancient manuscripts unknown to the outside world. Founded in 1073 AD, the Sakya Monastery has long been one of Tibe's most important religious centers, but this discovery revealed its importance as one of the worlds greatest treasure troves of ancient knowledge. The manuscripts contain texts on Buddhist scriptures, medicine, philosophy, astronomy, and art representing nearly a millennium of accumulated wisdom an

Sakya Monastery (ས་སྐྱ་དགོན་པ།) also known as Pel Sakya (White Earth" or "Pale Earth") is a Buddhist monastery situated 25 km southeast of a bridge which is about 127 km west of Shigatse on the road to Tingri in Tibet Autonomous Region. As to the great library of Sakya, it is on shelves along the walls of the great hall of the Lhakhang chen-po. There are preserved here many volumes written in gold letters; the pages are six feet long by eighteen inches in breadth. In the margin of each page are

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