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Gorampa


Gorampa Sonam Senge (Wylie: go rams pa bsod nams seng ge, 1429-1489) was an important philosopher in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the author of a vast collection of commentaries on sutra and tantra whose work was influential throughout Tibetan Buddhism. He established one of the definitive Tibetan understandings of the Prasaṅgika model of the Madhyamaka school of philosophy. He was the student of Rongtön (Rongtön Shéja Künrik, Wylie: rong ston shes bya kun rig). He founded the Thuptén Namgyél Monastery in Tanag (Wylie: rta nag thub bstan rnam rgyal gling), which is just north of Shigatse.

One of his most important and popular works is Distinguishing the Views (Tibetan: ལྟ་བའི་ཤན་འབྱེདWylie: lta ba'i shan 'byed), in which he argues for his view of Madhyamaka. He and other Sakya teachers classify themselves as presenting the "Freedom from Proliferation" (Tibetan: སྤྲོས་བྲལ་Wylie: spros bral) Madhyamaka.

He was a critic of Je Tsongkhapa. Gorampa insinuated Tsongkhapa conversed with a demon instead of Manjusri:


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