Rabten, Geshe

PersonType	Category:Tibetan Buddhist Teachers
MainNamePhon	Geshe Rabten
SortName	Rabten, Geshe
bio	Geshe Rabten (1921–1986) was a Tibetan Geshe born in Tibet in 1921. He was a student at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, and achieved Geshe status before leaving Tibet in 1959. He became known as a debater, scholar, and meditation master. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche were guided by him in their early days outside of Tibet. In the mid 1960s Geshe Rabten was a religious assistant to the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama asked him to teach Dharma to Westerners in Dharamshala in 1969. He went to teach in Switzerland in 1974. He was the founder of the Rabten Choeling Centre (which was originally named Tharpa Choeling) in Switzerland in 1979. He remained there till his death in 1986. Other centres that he founded in Europe included the Tibetan centre in Hamburg, Tashi Rabten at the Letzehof, Puntsog Rabten in Munich and Gephel Ling in Milan. (Source Accessed Feb 23, 2023)
YearBirth	1921
YearDeath	1986
BornIn	Tibet
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Names

Tibetan: ADDTIBETANHERE
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Other Transliterations in use:
Geshe Rabten
Geshé Rabten

Writings

Other Works by Geshé Rabten Advice from a Spiritual Friend, (with Geshe Ngawang Dargyey). Trans. Gonsar Tulku, ed. B. Beresford, London: Wisdom Publications, 1983. (Reprint) The Essential Nectar. Verse trans. and ed. Martin Wilson, London: Wisdom Publications, 1984. The Graduated Path to Liberation. Tr. Gonsar Tulku, Delhi: Mahayana Publications, 1982 (first edition: Cambridge, England, 1972). (Reprint) The Life and Teachings of Geshé Rabten. Trans. and ed. B. Alan Wallace, London: George, Allen and Unwin, 1980. Mahāmudrā. Trans and ed. Gonsar Tulku, Brian Beresford and Stephen Batchelor, Zürich: Theseus Verlag, 1979 (German language edition). The Mind and its Functions. Trans. and ed. Stephen Batchelor, Tharpa Choeling: 1978. The Preliminary Practices. Trans. Gonsar Tulku, ed. Georges Driessens, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1974 (revised ed. 1976).

Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.