go rams pa bsod nams seng ge

གོ་རམས་པ་བསོད་ནམས་སེངྒེ་

Gorampa Sönam Senge(1429 - 1489) 

Born in:

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go bo (khams)

Tibetan date of birth:

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Year of the Female Earth Bird, 7^th sexagenary cycle.

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Gorampa Sonam Sengge, the Sixth Ngor Khenchen, was a disciple of Rongton Sheja Kunrik and Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo. He was an important thinker of the Sakya tradition, establishing a Madhyamaka view that was critical of both Dolpopa and Tsongkhapa. Gorampa founded Tanak Serling and Tanak Tubten Namgyel monasteries. The latter would become an important teaching center for the Sakya tradition. Famed for his learning in both sutras and tantras, he became known as one of the “Ornaments of Tibet” an epithet granted to six of the Sakya tradition's most revered masters.

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