Sera Monastery - Seraji (English spelling)

Japanese: セラ寺 - せらじ(英語表記)Se-ra
Sera Monastery - Seraji (English spelling)

It is one of the four main temples of the Yellow Hat (Gelug) sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located in the southeastern part of Tibet, in the foothills, 3 km north of the capital, Lhasa. The official name of the temple is Theg Chen Ling (Mahayana) Monastery. It was built in 1417 by Jamtsen Choeje, a disciple of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Yellow Hat sect. It is one of the largest temples for learning in Tibet, with three faculties, two for exoteric Buddhism (generally Mahayana Buddhism) and one for esoteric Buddhism, and once housed over 5,000 scholars. As it assisted the Potala Palace, the palace of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, and had a strong character as an official temple, the temple grounds were destroyed in March 1951 due to oppression by the Chinese military and officials and a rebellion against them, and many of the monks fled to India with the Dalai Lama.

[Kanaoka Hidetomo]

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Japanese:

チベット仏教の黄帽(こうぼう)派(ゲルク派)の四大本山の一つ。チベットの南東部、首都ラサの北3キロメートルの山麓(さんろく)部にある。正式な寺名はテク・チェン・リンtheg chen gli(大乗寺)という。黄帽派の開祖ツォンカパの高弟ジャムツェン・チョエジェbyams chen chos rjeによって1417年に建立。学問寺としてはチベットにおいても最大規模のものの一つで、顕教(一般に大乗仏教)の学部二つ、密教の学部一つの合計3学部を擁し、かつては学僧5000余人が居住していた。ラサのダライ・ラマの宮殿ポタラ宮を補佐し、官寺としての性格が強かったためもあり、1951年3月中国軍・官による弾圧とそれに対する反乱により寺域は破壊され、僧徒の多くが、ダライ・ラマに従ってインドへ逃亡した。

[金岡秀友]

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