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Sera monastery:

Sera Monastery is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet
with the Drepung Monastery and the Ganden Monastery in the early fifteenth
century. The monastery was named Sera which means wild rose in the Tibetan
language, because the hill behind it was covered with wild roses in bloom when it
was built. Sera Monastery is located 2 km north of Lhasa and occupying an area of
114,946 square meters. Sera was established by Jamchen Choje Sakya Yeshe in
1419 on the request of his teacher Je Tsong Khapa.