Sera Monastery - Distinguished Alumni

Distinguished Alumni

Graduates of Sera Jey College who are known in the west include:

• Geshe Ngawang Tsondu, Wisdom of The Staten Island, Dharma Centre, The Mediation Factory, and Tibet House, New York.
• Geshe Lhundub Sopa, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Geshe Rabten, an eminent monk who directed Tharpa Chloing Buddhist Center in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland.
• Lama Thubten Yeshe, founder of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPTM).
• Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, a student of Lama Yeshe and presently director of FPMT.
• Pabongka Rinpoche — Author of Liberation in the Palm of Your Hands - a highly revered Lama who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and was the Spiritual Guide of Trijang Rinpoche, the 14th Dalai Lama's own Spiritual Guide.
• Sermey Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin—former abbot of Sera Mey university in Bylakuppe.
• Geshe Tenzin Zopa, attendant of Geshe Lama Konchog, and the subject of the 2008 documentary film Unmistaken Child.