Gorampa Sonam Senge

Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429–1489) was a great Sakyapa scholar, philosopher, and prolific author. He wrote an impressive number of important commentaries on both sutra and tantra, including the Middle Way, the Perfection of Wisdom, logic, Abhidharma, and the Vinaya. His explications of the Sakyapa view and rebuttals of its challengers still form the core of philosophical studies in Sakyapa and other monastic colleges today. The biography of Sakya Pandita translated here appears in the introductory matter he wrote as a preface to his famous work Classification of the Three Vows.