People

People at Sera

  • Monks
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Sera's Affiliated Institutions

Thangka of Sera Monastery
Thangka of Sera Monastery from the Musée des arts-asiatiques Guimet, Paris. Portion of a photo in Knud Larsen and Amund Sindung-Larsen, The Lhasa Atlas: Traditional Tibetan Architecture and Townscape.

The Sera Monastery Project

Sera Monastery has been one of Tibet’s premier monastic educational institutions from its founding in the early fifteenth century until the present. It is the second largest of the three great seats of learning (gdan sa) in the Geluk (dge lugs) school.

Hosting Institution: The University of California at Santa Barbara.

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Activities

Education, ritual life, work, recreation and any other activities characterizing monastic life.

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