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Tibetan Monks from Sera Monastery Among Hostile Forces. Share full article. LONDON TIMES -- NEW YORK TIMES Special Cablegram. May 12, 1904; ...
LHASA: The Sera Monastery, one of the three key monasteries in Tibet, reopened to both worshippers and tourists on Monday. It had been closed since the March 14 unrest in the regional capital.
The government of the Tibet autonomous region began to help renovate the 600-year-old Sera Monastery in 2009. The regional government started the latest renovation drive in 2011, when it invested ...
The Sera Monastery, one of the three leading monasteries in Tibet, re-opened to believers and tourists on Monday. It had been closed since the March 14 unrest in the regional capital.
Who:Eduardo and Jan Ferrada of Denver. Where: Sera Monastery 30 miles outside of Lhasa. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 feet, the monastery is one of the highest in the Himalayas and is reached by ...
Some of these lay officials, who are also part of our monastery's management committee, tell us that we can have faith in His Holiness in our hearts, but that we can't have photographs because the ...
The three great monasteries -- Sera, Drepung and Ganden -- are all now surrounded by phalanxes of Chinese troops. "The Sera monastery is surrounded by Chinese soldiers or police," the same ...
Sera Monastery, one of Tibet’s six Gelugpa monasteries, is renowned for its educational role in Buddhist philosophy. Built by Jamchen Chojey Sakya Yeshe, ...
The Dalai Lama, 80, fled the Himalayan region in 1959 after a failed uprising; Chinese authorities revile him as a “separatist,” although he claims to only want increased autonomy for the region.
Radio Free Asia reported that police used tear gas to disperse 500 to 600 monks from Sera monastery who were marching to demand the release of imprisoned fellow monks.