Sera Monastery
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Monks assembled outside the Sera Me Tratsang college of Sera Monastery in India in December 2006.
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| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| Tibetan | སེ་ར་ཐེག་ཆེན་གླིང་། |
| Wylie transliteration | se ra theg chen gling |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| Traditional | 色拉寺 |
| Simplified | 色拉寺 |
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| Coordinates | 29°41′53″N 91°8′0″E / 29.69806°N 91.13333°E |
| Monastery information | |
| Location | Wangbur Mountain, Lhasa, Tibet, China |
| Founded by | Jamchen Chojey |
| Founded | 1419 |
| Type | Tibetan Buddhist |
| Sect | Gelug |
| Dedicated to | Je Tsongkhapa |
| Colleges | Sera Je Dratsang, Sera Ngakpa Dratsang, Sera Me Dratsang |
| Number of monks | 550 (Tibet); 3000 at its counterpart in India |
| Its counterpart set up at Bylakuppe, near Mysore in Karnataka by Tibetan diaspora | |
Sera Monastery (Tibetan: སེ་ར་དགོན་པ, Wylie: se ra dgon pa "Wild Roses Monastery"; Chinese: 色拉寺; pinyin: Sèlā Sì) is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located 1.25 miles (2.01 km) north of Lhasa and about 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the Jokhang. The other two are Ganden Monastery and Drepung Monastery. The origin of its name is attributed to a fact that the site where the monastery was built was surrounded by wild roses in bloom.
The original Sera Monastery is responsible for some 19 hermitages, including four nunneries, which are all located in the foot hills north of Lhasa.
The Sera Monastery, as a complex of structures with the Great Assembly Hall and three colleges, was founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey of Sakya Yeshe of Zel Gungtang (1355–1435), a disciple of Je Tsongkhapa.
During the 1959 revolt in Lhasa, Sera monastery suffered severe damage, with its colleges destroyed and hundreds of monks killed. After the Dalai Lama took asylum in India, many of the monks of Sera who survived the attack moved to Bylakuppe in Mysore, India. After initial tribulations, they established a parallel Sera Monastery with Sera Me and Sera Je colleges and a Great Assembly Hall on similar lines to the original monastery, with help from the Government of India. There are now 3000 or more monks living in Sera, India and this community has also spread its missionary activities to several countries by establishing Dharma centres, propagating knowledge of Buddhism.
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