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Sera Monastery / José Ignacio Cabezón, Penpa Dorjee.
Van Pelt Library BQ6349.S47 C33 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cabezón, José Ignacio, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Se-ra Theg-chen-gling (Lhasa, China)--History.
- Se-ra Theg-chen-gling (Lhasa, China).
- Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--History.
- Buddhism.
- History.
- China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Buddhism--India--History.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 635 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Somerville, MA : Wisdom Publications, 2019.
- Contents:
- Early Indian Buddhist monasticism and its major rites
- The culture of learning in Buddhist India
- The early history of Buddhist monasticism in Tibet
- The founding of Sera and the rise of its colleges
- Sera's educational system
- The tumultuous seventeenth century and the building of new temples
- The hermitages and Trulku lineages of Sera
- The period of the regents
- The administration of Sera in the 1950s
- Sera under Chinese rule
- Sera in exile.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cabezón, José Ignacio, 1956- author. Sera Monastery.
- ISBN:
- 9781614296119
- 1614296111
- OCLC:
- 1085221567
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