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Sakya Town is located in Sakya County, Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region, on the upper reaches of the Zhongqu River in the west of Sakya County, and is the seat of the Sakya County Government. Sakya Town is one of the famous historical and cultural towns in China. The name of the town comes from the Sakya Temple, a famous Tibetan Buddhist temple in the territory.

Sakya Town is the birthplace of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. The fifth patriarch of the Sakya Sect and Bhasiba, the national teacher of the Yuan Dynasty, established the Sakya regime that ruled Tibet for more than 70 years on this basis. Sakya became the political power of Tibet at that time. , Religious center. The Sakya Temple, the main temple of the Sakya Sect, was first built in 1268 and was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit in 1961. It is one of the key tourist attractions in Tibet.

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