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TIBET: Sera Monastery

April 22nd 2006
New to my travel companions, Sera was already familiar to me. In 2005 I visited the monastery and even found a couple of monks who spoke English. It was great chatting with them at that time, and great being back to see and talk to them again at the debating courtyard. Sera is one the the 2 great Gelupga order monasteries and dates of 1419. At one point it had 5000 resident monks but now there ... read more
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