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Kunkhen Jangchup Bhumpa or Jangchp Woeser, one of the seven great disciples of lama
TsongKhapa, founded Sera Mey Monastery in the Iron Ox Year of the Tibetan calendar,
corresponding to the year 1421. Sera Mey Monastery is located to the north of Lhasa,
at the majestic feat of a mountain that looks like auspicious White Umbrella standing
out tall among the range of mountains that look like sleeping elephant. The Monastery
was founded as a center of learning and practicing the extensive and profound teachings
Buddha Shakyamuni. Sera Mey Monastery has produce thousands of learnt scholars and
experience practitioners since its inception.
In 1959, when Tibet was forcefully occupied by the China, thousands of Tibetans
managed to escape to India. Our monks who manage to escape and survive formed the
monastery along with the other monasteries at Buxall, an old British prison complex
in the state of Assam. They stayed there for ten years and finally in 1969, 13th
of Dec, moved and settled in Bylakuppe of Mysore in South India.
From then onwards, the Monastery began to receive new monk student and started expanding
and finally grew to this present monastic institution. The monastery has to construct
its main prayer hall three times, each time when the former was too small in size.
Due to the compassionate blessing of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, it now has a library,
a school for young ones, a hospital and a computer center. A side from imparting
traditional and modern education to the monk student, the monastery is also engaged
in Social Services.
Each year, it produces graduates of different levels who either continues to stay
and serve in the monastery or go on to serve in different part of the world. The
aim of this monastic institute is to impart and preserve the rich tradition of Buddha
Dharma. We hope that a day will come when all Tibetans will be able to gather together
back in Tibet and live in peace and harmony.
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