12 Facts About Sera Monastery

Original Sera Monastery is responsible for some 19 hermitages, including four nunneries, which are all located in the foot hills north of Lhasa.

Original Sera Monastery is a complex of structures founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang, a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa.

Well established as an organised Sera Monastery with dedicated efforts of the monks, an Assembly Prayer Hall that could accommodate 1500 monks was completed in 1978.

Sera Monastery is located on the northern outskirts of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Sera Monastery complex, encompassing 28 acres of land, housed several institutions in its precincts.

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Sera Monastery that developed over the centuries into a renowned place of learning, which trained hundreds of scholars who attained name and fame in the Buddhist nations, has under its affiliation 19 hermitages, including four nunneries, which are all located in the foot hills above Lhasa.

Sera Monastery located the Incarnate Lama of his guru at 'Phan po' near Lhasa.

Sera Monastery Choding Hermitage was a tantric college before the 1959 Cultural Revolution.

Sera Monastery was a distinguished meditator, who brought his knowledge of the philosophical tradition to Sera Utse and attracted many students, amongst them included Phur lcog ngag dbang byams pa, and Mkhar rdo bzod pa rgya mtsho .

Sera Monastery Utse has a two-storied chapel and monks' quarters with magnificent views over the city of Lhasa.

Sera Monastery interpreted it as a “revealed sign” to build his hermitage here.

Sera Monastery was a student of the Fifth Dalai Lama and requested his permission to build a hermitage for eight to sixteen monks in the foothills above his native Nyangbran and invited the Fifth Dalai Lama to perform a “site investigation” to determine the most auspicious location on which to build the monastery.