Sera Khandro 色拉康卓

Sera Khandro, courtesy of Jnanasukha.org

Sera Khandro Dewé Dorje (Tib. སེ་ར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་བདེ་བའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. se ra mkha' 'gro bde ba'i rdo rje) aka Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo (ཀུན་བཟང་བདེ་སྐྱོང་དབང་མོ་, Wyl. kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo) (1892-1940) — a great female tertön whose treasure texts are revered by many great Nyingma masters. She was the consort of Tulku Trimé Özer, one of the sons of the illustrious Tertön Dudjom Lingpa. She was also one of the root gurus of Chatral Rinpoche and was reborn as his daughter, Saraswati (recognised by Karmapa Rangjung Rigpé Dorje).

Another incarnation, recognised by Dudjom Rinpoche, was Tare Lhamo.

Revelations

• Immaculate White Lotus, a biography of Padmasambhava

Writings

• Refining Our Perception of Reality Sera Khandro's Commentary on Dudjom Lingpa's Account of His Visionary Journey. The book includes a short autobiography of Sera Khandro, translated by Chatral Rinpoche’s disciple-translator Christina Monson. Shambala Publications, 2014.

Further Reading

• Sarah H. Jacoby, “Consorts and Revelations in Eastern Tibet: The Auto/biographical Writings of the Treasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940)” (unpublished PhD thesis)
• Sarah H. Jacoby, “Love and Liberation, Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro”, Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 2014.

External Links

• Biography by Sarah Jacoby
• TBRC profile
• Sera Khandro Series on Lotsawa House