The Mind and Its Functions: Explanations of a Tibetan Meditation Master

The Venerable Geshe Rabten, one of the outstanding Tibetan Buddhist Masters of our time and pioneer of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, was born in eastern Tibet in 1920. After having accomplished his Geshe Lharampa degree, he served His Holiness the Dalai Lama as philosophical assistant in India, until His Holiness asked him to teach Buddhism to western disciples in Indian and in Europe. Thus Geshe came to Switzerland in 1974, where he lives until his passing away in 1986. In this book, Geshe provides us with a penetrating wisdom with the precise and skillful analysis of the mind and its functions. Like a mirror, it reflects very clearly our mental mark-up with all its faults and qualities. It opens up an understanding of the hidden secrets of the mind. The application of such an understanding leads to a valid inner transformation and thereby to a clear knowledge of the purpose of one's life.