[Buddha-l] Metaphysical warfare

[Christopher Fynn]

jkirk wrote:
>  
> Sera monastery in India? Isn't that one in the south somewhere? Tamil Nadu,
> or?
> Jk
> =====================


Sera monatery is located in the large Tibetan settlment at Byallakuppe (near 
Kushalnagar), Mysore district, Karnataka.

There are several large very Tibetan settlements in Karnataka at Byallakuppe, 
Hunsur, Kollegal, and Mungod. At one time it was estimated that over half the
Tibetan refugees in India were resettled in Karnataka.

The three large "State Monastaries" of central Tibet (Sera, Dreping & Ganden) 
have all been re-established in Karnataka (Sera at Byallakuppe and Drepung & 
Gaden at Mungod) each of these has several thousand monks.

Many "new arrivals" from Tibet are sent to these monasteries to become monks and 
today a large proportion of the monks in those institutions are those that have 
arrived from Tibet in the last 20 years rather than from the Tibetan diaspora 
which arrived in India during the late 50's and 60's.

These monks are subsidised by the Dharamsala based Tibetan Government in Exile.

- Chris