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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  • Buddhist temple
  • …lies at an elevation of around 3,700 metres (12,130 feet)
  • Description: Tibetan Buddhist monastery near Lhasa, Tibet, China
  • Also known as
    “Sela Si”
    “Sera”
    “ཆོས་སྡེ་ཆེན་པོ་སེ་ར་ཐེག་ཆེན་གླིང་།”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pabonka Hermitage and Chupzang Nunnery.
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Buddhist temple
, also written Pawangka… is situated 3 km northwest of Sera Monastery.
Jan Reurink, CC BY 2.0.
Buddhist temple
is a historical nunnery, belonging to Sera Monastery. is situated 2 km northwest of Sera Monastery.
College
Tibet University of Tibetan Medicine is a full-time university. is situated 3½ km south of Sera Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyangrain Subdistrict and Xoi Parish.
Suburb
Nyang bran is a suburb district and valley located…
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Neighborhood
Zhol Village, or Shol Village, is a village at the base of the in , . is situated 4½ km southwest of Sera Monastery.
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Suburb
is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Sera Monastery.

Sera Monastery

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Latitude
29.69789° or 29° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
91.133° or 91° 7′ 59″ east
Open location code
7MXHM4XM+55
Open­Street­Map ID
way 176874384
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­religious
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tourism=­attraction
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”
  • 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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