Sershul Monastery
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Sershul Monastery (
Monastery
Sershul Monastery is the largest Gelugpa monastery in the Kham region and has the only Buddhist Monastic University in the Kham region that is qualified to teach and bestow the highest Tibetan Buddhist geshe degree.
Home to 1300 monks, Sershul Monastery is the largest Gelug monastery in Kham, and the religious center of Sêrxü County—the highest, largest, poorest, coldest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province.
Architecture
Sershul Monastery has six existing temples, most of which are fairly well preserved since before 1949.
The largest temple, which is more than 300 years old, contains two great chanting halls devoted to
Collections
Sershul Monastery was established in 1701 and to date has kept a collection of rare sacred Buddhist objects, like the wooden block and hammer used during the initiation and penance ceremonies of monks at the
The monastery also has many valuable sacred relics left by eminent monks after their deaths. Examples are for instance when Trinley Norbu lama died in 1995, a mark was left on his skull in the image Vajrapani. In 1997 when Triwa Lobsang lama died, an image of Arya Tara was left on his heart.
See also
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Gsumge Mani Stone Castle
- Index: Buddhist monasteries in Sichuan, China
- Index: Buddhist monasteries in Tibet