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Interactive Map of Sera
by José Ignacio Cabezón
One of the virtues of the interactive map is that it allows you to explore how the organization of the monastery translates into – how it is expressed in – the physical space. Thus, by “turning on” the College Affiliations, for example, you can see all of the buildings affiliated with each of Sera’s three colleges, as well as those that have no affiliation with an individual college but only with Sera in general.
In addition, there are various types of building-complexes, compounds, free-standing buildings, and structures in the monastery, and you can gain a sense of how these are distributed within the monastery by turning on the Features button. For example, regional houses as organizational units contained two main types of structures: the regional house headquarters…
