- Sera Monastery
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Early Indian Buddhist Monasticism and Its Major Rites
- 2. The Culture of Learning in Buddhist India
- 3. The Early History of Buddhist Monasticism in Tibet
- 4. The Founding of Sera and the Rise of Its Colleges
- 5. Sera’s Educational System
- 6. The Tumultuous Seventeenth Century and the Building of New Temples
- 7. The Hermitages and Trulku Lineages of Sera
- 8. The Period of the Regents
- 9. The Administration of Sera in the 1950s
- 10. Sera under Chinese Rule
- 11. Sera in Exile
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: The Rituals for Initiating a Layman, Renunciant, and Novice, and the Ordination of a Monk
- Appendix 2: The Ritual of Confession
- Appendix 3: Holders of the Sera Throne (Sera Tripa)
- Appendix 4: The Abbots of the Jé College
- Appendix 5: The Abbots of the Mé College
- Appendix 6: The Abbots of the Töpa College
- Appendix 7: Sera Masters Who Held the Ganden Throne
- Appendix 8: Teachings, Oral Transmissions, and Empowerments that Paṇchen Sönam Drakpa Received at Sera
- Appendix 9: The Liturgy Recited at the Jé College on the First Day of the Term
- Appendix 10: Sera’s Estates
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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