Serlung Monastery

[1] 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] 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.

Tshogki lopen(ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་དཔོན།) 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.

His Holiness the Je Khenpo renamed the monastery as Serlung Goenzin Dhuedhay Lungtog Choeling Dratshang in 2023.

[7] Thang Tong Gyalpo’s engineering feats, particularly with regard to bridge building, were reportedly inspired after he was refused passage on a ferry because of his ferocious and unkempt outward appearance.

He was thrown unceremoniously into the water only to emerge with an insatiable zest for building bridges and ferry points.

Old Lhakhang of the Serlung Goenzin Monastery
Tshogki Lopen Khenchen Sangay Khandu and Khenchen Karma Lodey.
The two principals of Serlung Buddhist Institute, who changed the institute to Goenzin. (དབུ་འཛིན་རིམ་བྱོན་གཉིས།) (Khenpo Kuenzang Tobgay Namgyel and Khenpo Tashi Dorji)
Winter view of new Tshokhang, 4th February 2022.
Statue of Buddha is the main inner monument in the new Tshokhang on ground floor.
Guru Rinpochey. Padmasambhava
Zhabdrung Rinpoche Ngawang Namgyal ཞབས་དྲུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ། །
The Current Spiritual Minister. Tshogki Lopen. Khenchen Sangay Khandu.
Construction of the new Tshokhang.
Serlung Monastery; doing work for temple. 2019
The 250 monks line up outside the new Tshokhang (four-storey hall) at Serlung Monastery. 2023
Monks at Serlung Monastery at an editing workshop for Dzongkha Wikipedia
Mandrel offering