The biography of Geshe Tadrin Rabten, a prominent Tibetan Master, offers insights into the authentic lifestyle of a Tibetan-Buddhist Master. It serves as a valuable teaching and guideline for Dharma practitioners, reflecting the journey of Master Je Tsongkhapa in seeking knowledge, personal instruction, and dedicated practice.
Daily life applications
Some may wonder, as this is supposed to be a teaching on meditation, why we are mentioning such things as eating and drinking. But this can all e related to meditation. To help yourself and others it`s necessary to develop a clear , highly concentrative and wholesome state of mind. A very useful and important instrument herunto is meditation. Meditation is nevertheless most effective if is not only practised in reclusiveness or retreat but being into everybody's normal way of daily life. Geshe describes in this handbook (guideline) in a very clear and comprehensible way how you manage to integrate meditation successfull in your everyday life.
Exploring crucial points on the path to enlightenment, "Stages of the Path" literature continues to hold its place as one of the great treasures of Buddhist thought. In this volume, Geshe Rabten presents a structured explanation of the popular and practical text, The Essential Nectar of Holy Doctrine , by the 18th century scholar Yeshe Tsondru. Geshe Rabten’s teachings reveal how we may see life’s great value and, by taking up the profound practice described herein, make the most of its abundant opportunity. In a voice both sweet and potent, The Essential Nectar reveals the essence of the path to enlightenment.
A verbally transmitted teaching elucidating the "ordinary" as well as the "extraordinary" practices which are prerequisites for anyone embarking on higher meditations. The explanation\on is based on a text by the Duk-pa Kagyud Lama, Padma Karpo.
