Sakya Monastery is located at the foot of Benbo Mountain in Sakya County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region. It is a temple of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and the main temple of the Sakya Sect.

Sakya Temple was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council in 1961. "Sakya" is a Tibetan transliteration, meaning gray and white soil. In 1073 AD (the sixth year of Xining in the Northern Song Dynasty), Kun Gongchojieb (1034-1102), a descendant of the Kun family of the Tubo noble family, discovered that on a hillside on the south side of Benbo Mountain, the soil was white, shiny, and auspicious, that is, He invested money to build the Sakya Temple and gradually formed the Sakya Sect. The walls of Sakya Temple are painted with red color symbolizing Manjushri Bodhisattva, white color symbolizing Guanyin Bodhisattva and cyan symbolizing Vajrapani Bodhisattva, so the Sakya Sect is also commonly known as the "Flower Sect".