Lhasa Trip Overview
Explore two monastries, the Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery — two of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet — on this full-day tour. Drepung is the largest monastery in Tibet and the home monastery of the Dalai Lama. Sera Monastery is famous for the monk’s debate at 3-to-5pm daily. All entry fees, plus a Lhasa hotel pickup and drop-off, are included.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Lhasa, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Explore two monastries, the Drepung Monastery and Sera Monastery — two of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet — on this full-day tour. Drepung is the largest monastery in Tibet and the home monastery of the Dalai Lama. Sera Monastery is famous for the monk’s debate at 3-to-5pm daily. All entry fees, plus a Lhasa hotel pickup and drop-off, are included.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Drepung Monastery (Zhebang Si), Southern Slope of Genpeiwuzi Mountain, Chengguan District, Lhasa 850000 China
At 9:30am, the tour guide will be in the lobby of clients’ Hotel, Lhasa, to provide transportation to Drepung Monastery, one of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, founded in 1416 by Jamming Choge, one of Tsongkhapa’s main disciples.
Drepung Monastery was used as the Dalai Lama’s palace in the Drepung before permanently relocating to Potala Palace. The grand monastery was built along the mountains covering over 650,000 square feet. With numerous mansions and zigzagging alleys, the monastery looks like an impressive city in itself.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Sera Monastery, Wuze Hill , Sera Chengguan District, Lhasa 850000 China
In the afternoon, continue to Sera Monastery. It is also one of the ‘great three’ Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, but was founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chojey, another main disciple of Tsongkhapa’s. The highlight of Sera Monastery is the debate of monks around 3-to-5pm daily, except Sundays.
Duration: 2 hours
