Sera Home - Right2
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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="GeshéRabtenTheLifeofaSeraMonk" class="anchorpoint"></a>Geshé Rabten: The Life of a Sera Monk</h3><p class="paragraph">
</p><h3 class="heading-h2"><a name="byGeshéRabtenandBAlanWallace" class="anchorpoint"></a>by Geshé Rabten and B. Alan Wallace</h3><p class="paragraph">Geshé Rabten (1920-1987) was a renowned scholar-practitioner of the Jé College (<em class="italic">grwa tshang byes</em>) of Sera Monastery. He was born in Kham (<em class="italic">khams</em>), eastern Tibet, for twenty years he made Sera his home, and later was abbot of a monastery in Switzerland.</p><div class="resource-link"><p class="paragraph">
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