Gorampa Sönam Sengé
Gorampa Sönam Sengé (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 Paṇḍita translated here appears in the introductory matter he wrote as a preface to his famous work Classification of the Three Vows.
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Sakya Paṇḍita
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A set of classic biographies of Sakya Paṇḍita—one of Tibet’s greatest scholars and religious masters.
Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) was a renowned Tibetan polymath, scholar, statesman, and religious master, and one of the most famous and consequential figures in the history of Tibet. The three classic biographies included here contain fascinating firsthand accounts of key events in Sakya Paṇḍita’s life, covering his family ancestry, early education, interactions and debates with other sects, travels to Mongolia and his diplomacy at the Mongol court, and a detailed account of the miraculous events that occurred in the last weeks of his life.