Admission

To get admitted to a monastery, first one must find a resident teacher whose role is like a guide and a caretaker. After being accepted by a coll

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Courses and study program

The study of the five classical texts is divided into fourteen classes. Based on seniority, the classes are ranked as: Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Ze

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Term & Affiliation

Although the exact duration of one’s study at Sera Mey is not fixed, generally it takes around twenty years to attain the highest degree of Geshe

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Examinations

Memorization:Memorization Examination has been a long monastic tradition in Tibet. In this, students recite by heart all the texts that they were

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational met

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Founder

Just as finding the source of a river should lead us to a mountain, the history of the Buddha Dharma should also lead us to its origin, the Buddh

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Author

Khedrup Gedun Tepa Dhargye, an incarnation of Geshe Potowa who was considered an emanation of Maitreya, was a great adept and scholar whose work

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Legendary Scholars

The Upholders of Dharma in General, Gaden Tripas [Supreme Head of Geluk Tradition] and Abbots from Sera Mey Sera Mey had produced many eminent sa

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History in Exile

His Holiness envisioned that if the monastic communities could be established in places where Tibetan refugee settlements have been founded, it w

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