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Sera Monastery

Sera Monastery is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of , located 1.25 miles north of and about 5 km north of the .
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  • Type: Buddhist temple
  • Description: Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Lhasa, Tibet, China
  • Also known as: “Chödé Chenpo Sera Tekchen Ling”, “sela si”, “Sela Si”, “Sera Gön”, and “Sera Tekchen Ling”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chupzang Nunnery and Pabonka Hermitage.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0.
is a historical nunnery, belonging to Sera Monastery. It is located north of in , . Though the site was established as a hermitage around 1665, it was converted into an exclusive nunnery in 1984 and has since grown into one of the largest nunneries in the Lhasa Valley. is situated 2 km northwest of Sera Monastery.

Buddhist temple
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, also written Pawangka, is a historical hermitage, today belonging to Sera Monastery, about 8 kilometres northwest of in the Nyang bran Valley on the slopes of Mount Parasol in . is situated 3 km northwest of Sera Monastery.

College
Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine is a full-time university. It is publicly funded, provincially-affiliated, general institution of higher education of the People's Republic of China, located in , . is situated 3½ km south of Sera Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyangrain Subdistrict and Zhol Village.

Suburb
Nyang bran is a suburb district and valley located several kilometres north of the city of , . The valley is noted for its hermitages, belonging to the Sera Monastery, one of the three great historical monasteries of Tibet. , Drakri Hermitage, and many others are located in the valley which offers scenic views of Lhasa.

Neighborhood
, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . It contained the residences and administrative buildings of Ganden Phodrang's government officials and other Tibetans. is situated 4½ km southwest of Sera Monastery.

Suburb
Photo: Vinko Rajic, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Sera Monastery.

Sera Monastery

Latitude
29.69789° or 29° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
91.133° or 91° 7′ 59″ east
Elevation
3,696 metres (12,126 feet)
Open location code
7MXHM4XM+55
Open­Street­Map ID
way 176874384
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amenity=­place_of_worship
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landuse=­religious
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Geo­Names ID
6547221
Wiki­data ID
Q124848
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Wu Chinese—“Sera Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “সেরা মঠ”
  • Burmese: “ဆီရာကျောင်းတော်”
  • Catalan: “Monestir Sera”
  • Chinese: “sèlā sì”
  • Chinese: “色拉大乘州”
  • Chinese: “色拉寺”
  • Czech: “Sera”
  • Dutch: “Sera (klooster)”
  • Dutch: “Sera”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دير سيرا”
  • French: “monastère de Séra”
  • French: “Monastère de Séra”
  • German: “Sera-Kloster”
  • German: “Sera”
  • Hebrew: “מנזר סרה”
  • Hindi: “सेरा मठ”
  • Hungarian: “Szera kolostor”
  • Italian: “Se ra Theng chen gling”
  • Italian: “Sera”
  • Japanese: “セラ寺”
  • Korean: “세라 사원”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Seraklosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Seraklosteret”
  • Polish: “Sera”
  • Russian: “Сэра”
  • Slovenian: “Samostan Sera”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio Sera”
  • Swedish: “Seraklostret”
  • Thai: “อารามเซรา”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་ར་ཐེག་ཆེན་གླིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་ར་དགོན།”
  • Tibetan: “སེ་ར”
  • Ukrainian: “Монастир Сера”
  • Wu Chinese: “色拉寺”

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