Gorampa Sonam Senge was an important philosopher in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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20 Facts About Gorampa
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Gorampa was the author of a vast collection of commentaries on sutra and tantra whose work was influential throughout Tibetan Buddhism.
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Gorampa is particularly known for his writings on madhyamaka philosophy, especially his critique of the madhyamaka views of Tsongkhapa and Dolpopa.
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Gorampa defended the mainly anti-realist interpretation of madhyamaka held by the Sakya school.
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Gorampa was the student of Rongton, Byams chen rab 'byams pa Sangs rgyas 'phel, Ngor chen Kun dga' bzang po, Gung ru Shes rab bzang po.
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Gorampa founded the Thupten Namgyel Monastery in Tanag, which is just north of Shigatse.
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Gorampa's works were very influential in Sakya and outside of the Sakya school.
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Gorampa was a major rival which Gelug scholastics responded to centuries after his death.
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Gorampa's work was a major source for the madhyamaka views of Mipham.
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Gorampa's works were suppressed by Gelug state institutions for his polemical treatment of Tsongkhapa's views.
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Gorampa argues that from the perspective of a Buddha's enlightened gnosis, conventional truth is not found:.
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Furthermore, Gorampa argues that accepting the conventional reality of conventional truth undermines soteriology:.
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Gorampa criticized the contemporary Sakya Chogden for espousing a shentong view.
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Gorampa accuses Tsongkhapa of holding an interpretation of madhyamaka which amounts to nihilism.
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Gorampa thinks that this follows from Tsongkhapa's view that the object of the rational-analytical understanding of emptiness is the ultimate truth.
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Gorampa criticizes Tsongkhapa's view of conventional truth on numerous points such as:.
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Gorampa does not agree with Tsonghkapa that the prasangika and svatantrika methods produce different results nor that the prasangika is a "higher" view.
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Gorampa's critiques were addressed by some of the Gelug school's most important thinkers such as Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen and Jamyang Shepe Dorje Ngawang Tsondru.
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Gorampa was a prolific author, his major exoteric works are:.
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