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Gorampa Sonam Senge

Gorampa Sonam Senge

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Name variants:
  • Gowo Rabjampa
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With the full physical strength of your extensive merit

And the lion's roar of the Sugata's excellent teachings,

You strike terror into bestial proponents of wrong views—

Sonam Senge, guardian of the snow mountain of Buddha's teachings, to you I bow.

Texts by and about the great Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge (go rams pa bsod nams seng ge, 1429–1489):

Praise

Jamyang Khyentse composed these verses in praise of the famed Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge in 1958 following a vivid experience that brought the master clearly to mind.

Pramāṇa

Taken from the author's commentary on Sakya Paṇḍita's Treasury of Valid Reasoning (tshad ma rigs gter) entitled The Unmistaken Commentary on the Intention of the Seven Treatises [of Dharmakīrti] and the Sūtra [i.e the Pramāṇasamuccaya of Dignāga]—Clarifying the Meaning of the Treasury of Valid Reasoning, this is an examination of the objects of cognition according to Buddhist epistemology.

Prayers

Jamyang Khyentse composed this ten-verse prayer to the famed Sakya scholar Gorampa Sonam Senge following an auspicious dream some time in 1952 or 1953.
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