Geshe Rabten
Geshe Rabten (* 1920 in Eastern Tibet; † 1986 ) was a Tibetan Buddhist monk.
Before fleeing to India, he studied at Sera Monastery near Lhasa , where he passed the Geshe Lharampa exam. He later spent many years in intensive meditation exams, served the 14th Dalai Lama as a philosophical assistant, and came to Switzerland in 1975 at the repeated requests of Western students interested in serious study of Tibetan Buddhism . In 1977 he founded the Tibetan University Institute Rabten Choeling , in Le Mont-Pèlerin above Vevey on Lake Geneva; Over the years, other study centers followed in Austria and Germany. Geshe Rabten is also the author of a number of important books on Buddhism.
Web links
- Literature by and about Geshe Rabten in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geshe Rabten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tibetan Buddhist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eastern Tibet |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |