What is "gorampa"

Gorampa Sonam Senge (, 1429-1489) was an important philosopher in the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the author of a vast collection of commentaries on sutra and tantra whose work was influential throughout Tibetan Buddhism. He established one of the definitive Tibetan understandings of the Prasaṅgika model of the Madhyamaka school of philosophy. He was the student of Rongtön (Rongtön Shéja Künrik, ). He founded the Thuptén Namgyél Monastery in Tanag , which is just north of Shigatse.