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Geshé Rabten: The Life of a Sera Monk
by Geshé Rabten and B. Alan Wallace
Geshé Rabten (1920-1987) was a renowned scholar-practitioner of the Jé College (grwa tshang byes) of Sera Monastery. He was born in Kham (khams), eastern Tibet, for twenty years he made Sera his home, and later was abbot of a monastery in Switzerland.
After completing most of his studies there, he fled Tibet in 1959. He did his final examinations in Buxador, India, and obtained the degree of Geshé Lharampa (dge bshes lha ram pa). Geshé Rabten became abbot of the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Switzerland in 1975, but he had already been teaching European and American students since 1969.