The oldest library among these is the Library of Cetinje Monastery, which was founded by the end of the 15th century at the time when the Printing House of Crnojevići started operating.

Epifany joined the Chudov Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin, where he was appointed head of the Patriarchal school and charged with administrating the Printing Yard.

Young monks printing Buddhist scriptures using the rubbing technique, Sera Monastery in Tibet

Image: Woodblock printing, Sera, Tibet. JPG | Young monks printing scriptures.

He joined Da Ci ' en Monastery ( Monastery of Great Maternal Grace ), where he led the building of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in order to store the scriptures and icons he had brought back from India.

Two thousand and four hundred bhikkhus led by Venerable Jagarabhivamsa Thera ( Tipitakadhara Mahadhammarajadhirajaguru ) of Dakkhinarama Monastery, Mandalay, convened, to recite and approve the scriptures.

A painting of the bhavacakra in Sera Monastery, Tibet

Image: Tibetan chakra. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra in Sera Monastery, Tibet.

His reputation spread quickly and the monks at Sera Monastery also recognised him as their abbot.

Drepung Monastery was founded by Jamyang Choje, Sera Monastery was founded by Chöje Shakya Yeshe and the Gyalwa Gendün Drup founded Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

Sera Monastery, Tibet.

According to Geshe Ngawang Dakpa of Sera Je Monastery in a 2008 Dharma Talk, " Aryadeva was an Ayurvedic medicine doctor monk just like Aśvaghoṣa and Nāgārjuna.

Later Geshe Kelsang continued his studies at Sera Monastery near Lhasa, one of the great Gelug monastic universities of Tibet.

According to Michael von Brück, in 1996 Geshe Kelsang was expelled by a number of abbots and Geshes from the community of Sera Je Monastery in a letter " calling him an ' apostate ' and comparing him to ' Mahmud of Ghazni.

Kalachakra thangka from Sera Monastery ( private collection ).

Woodblock printing, Sera Monastery, Tibet.

I later heard many more accounts about the escape from other people who were personally involved in it, like Trijang Rinpoche's attendants and monks of Pomra Khamtsen of Sera Mey Monastery, who had been chosen as the Dalai Lama's personal bodyguards.

Ordained as a Gelugpa monk, he was the first American to receive the Geshe degree at Sera Monastery in India.

* Sera Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, monk and scholar from the Gelug Tradition, is a contemporary of Lama Yeshe's from the time they spent studying at Sera Monastery.

Young monks woodblock printing, Sera Monastery, Tibet

Buddhism | Buddhist monks at the Sera Monastery during a festival.

Lama Yeshe was born near the Tibetan town of Tolung Dechen, but was sent to Sera Monastery in Lhasa at the age of six.

Sera Monastery did award him an honorary geshe degree in the early 80s.

Also to note is the Sera Je Food Fund http :// www. fpmt. org / projects / seraje / offering 3 meals a day to the 2600 monks who are studying at Sera Je Monastery since 1991.

As a youth Hita studied traditional Tibetan subjects at Sera Monastery in southern India, and simultaneously received private tutoring in Western subjects.