page_title: Rakhadrak Hermitage
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Rakhadrak Hermitage / Structure
caption_attribution_description: Rakhadrak Hermitage (Ra kha brag ri khrod) is located northeast of (and one ridge over from) Se ra. It takes about forty-five minutes to walk from Se ra to the hermitage (ri khrod). Ra kha brag is also just a ten-minute walk up the mountain from Keutsang Hermitage (Ke’u tshang ri khrod). Like Ke’u tshang, it is one of the hermitages on the “Sixth-Month Fourth-Day” (Drug pa tshe bzhi) pilgrimage circuit. The site is divided into two parts. In the lower portion, one finds a compound, which is the site of the caves of Tsong kha pa (1357-1419), Rgyal tshab rje (1364-1432) and Mkhas grub rje (1385-1438). It is also the site of a small hut that belonged to Byams chen chos rje (1354-1435), the founder of Se ra, where the latter is said to have begun the tradition of the the Ganden Feast of the 25th (Dga’ ldan lnga mchod) commemoration of the death-date of Tsong kha pa. East of this compound, there is a small kitchen and a large building that before 1959 appears to have served as monastic living quarters. source&#160;: &lt;a href="http://www.thdl.org/collections/cultgeo/mons/sera/hermitages/index.php?xml=sera_herm_rakhadrak.xml" rel="nofollow"&gt;www.thdl.org/collections/cultgeo/mons/sera/hermitages/ind...&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Rakhadrak Hermitage is a historical hermitage belonging to the Sera Monastery. It is northeast of Sera and north of Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region. It is just up the mountain from the Keutsang Hermitage.
context_section_description: The hermitage was built in two segments – the upper and the lower. The lower part, which has an orange hut, had a compound wall where caves of Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), Rgyal tshab rje (1364–1432) and Mkhas grub rje (1385–1438) existed. The “Ganden Feast of the 25th” (dga’ ldan lnga mchod), a commemoration of the death-date of Tsongkhapa, used to be observed here at a small hut. This tradition was initiated by Byams chen chos rje (1354–1435), the founder of Sera who lived in the small hut. A small kitchen and a large building (residence for monks) are also seen to the north of the compound wall.
  The upper part of the hermitage had also a compound where the main temple, a kitchen, a bla ma’s residence, rooms for visiting Sera monks existed. A temple to Tsongkhapa was also here, which had thousands of small pressed-clay tablets (tsa tsa) of him.
caption: Rakhadrak and Keutsang Hermitage. Rakhadrak Hermitage is up the mountain on the top left.
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