Tradition 04 · Tradition Partners
Contemplative systems integrating meditation, mantra, visualisation, and subtle-body practices as pathways toward transformation and direct recognition of the nature of mind. These traditions often work with inner energy, luminosity, and profound states of meditative absorption.
Karnataka, India
Tradition & Research
Founded in the early 15th century by Jetsun Kunkhen Lodroe Rinchen Senge — a devoted disciple of Lama Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism — Sera Jey ranks among Tibetan Buddhism’s great monastic universities. After the original monastery was lost in 1959, its monks reached India under the leadership of the 14th Dalai Lama. Following nearly a decade of rehabilitation, Sera Jey was re-established in 1970 at Bylakuppe, Karnataka, under the patronage of the Dalai Lama and the central and state governments of India.
Today it is home to more than 4,500 monks who measure their practice experience not in hours but in lifetimes, training in the tradition’s rigorous philosophical debate and analytical meditation.
All Here visited Sera Jey’s Science & Meditation Research Center to record EEG data during deep meditation with resident monks. It was a powerful exchange of ideas, practices, and brain science: centuries of accumulated meditation meeting today’s neuroimaging. The team was also welcomed into the monastery’s Tibetan New Year celebrations as part of the visit.
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