Serlung Monastery
Serlung Pekar Choeling Buddhist Institute, (Dzongkha: གསེར་ལུང་དགོན་འཛིན་འདུས་སྡེ་ལུང་རྟོགས་ཆོས་གླིང་) also known as Silung Goemba, is a 600-year-old monastery in Dawakha, Paro, Bhutan, and the seat of Thang Thong Gyalpo (Dzongkha: ཐང་སྟོང་རྒྱལ་པོ། ལྕགས་བཟོ་པ།), also known as The Bridge Builder. Gyalpo is legendary as the first to construct suspension bridges using iron chains. He built a total of 58 bridges across Tibet and Bhutan.[1]
The monastery was handed over to the Dratshang Lhentshog by the public in 2005.[2]
The monastery is also known for its lake, which is believed to be sacred and the focus of a ritual held every three years that is led by a female shaman (pawo).[3]
The monastery housed just 16 monks in 2015[4] but has since been expanded. Tshoki lopen Sangay Khandu and khepo Karma Loday donated nu 160 million for construction of a four-storey multipurpose hall [5], which was consecrated in October, 2023, by the Je Khenpo.[6]
Her Majesty the Royal Grandmother, Ashi Kesang Choeden Wangchuck ( Bhutan: ཨ་ཞེ་སྐལ་བཟང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།)funded a thongdrel(མཐོང་གྲོལ) for the monastery in 2015, which took one year to complete[4].
Since 2018, it has been used as a summer residence for the paksamkha monks.
The old tshokhang houses only 60 monks and thats why the new tshokhang was constructed. now the new tshokhang or temple handover 200 monks. hostels around the tshokhang are under construction. The ground floor the main scared object was CHOE -LONG -TRUEL-SUM (the buddha, zhabdrung and guru rinpoche ) The first floor has a library, study room and offices, the second floor has rooms for teachers and senior monks. The third floor is a Dolma (GreenTara) altar. There are 250 monks including teachers at the institute.[7]
History
གསེར་ལུང་འདུས་སྡེ་ལུང་རྟོགས་ཆོས་གླིང་གྲྭ་ཚང་འདི་སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༨ ལུ་དགོན་འཛིན་གྲྭ་ཚང་སྦེ་གཞི་བརྩུགས་འདི་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།
The Serlung buddhist institute monastery was established in 2018 as a Goenzin Dratshang.
གསེར་ལུང་དགོན་འཛིན་འདུས་སྡེ་ལུང་རྟོགས་ཆོས་གླིང་ཟེར་མཚན་འདི་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༣ ལོ་ལུ་སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་མཆོག་གིས་བཏགས་གནང་གནངམ་ཨིན།
His Holiness the Je khenpo will rename the monastery as Serlung Goenzin Dhuedhay Luentog Choeling Dratshang in 2023.
Teaching
References
- ^ Ping, Chow (8 December 2021). "Thangtong Gyalpo is more than just a legendary iron bridge builder of Bhutan". Daily Bhutan.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "HH the Je Khenpo consecrates facility at Buddhist Institute in Paro". BBSCL. 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ Wangchuk, Galey (11 July 2024). "Tso Mem Go-ni: Propitiation of Mermaid". ICH Links. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b not stated (3 July 2015). "Silung Pekar Chhoeling Goenpa gets a new thongdrel". Bhutan Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Newspaper, Bhutan's Daily. "Picture story". Kuensel Online. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ Newspaper, Bhutan's Daily. "Picture story". Kuensel Online. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
- ^ "HH the Je Khenpo consecrates facility at Buddhist Institute in Paro". BBSCL. 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
External links
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