Sera khandro autobiography of missouri

Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo (1892–1940) or Sera Kandro is considered an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal, and in her lifetime was a Tertön of Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana, a biographer and autobiographer, and a highly respected teacher.^[2][3] She taught Dudjom Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, and the First Adzom Drukpa, Drodul Pawo Dorje, among other high lamas.^[3]

Sera Khandro was born into a rich family, but ran away at the age of 14 to escape an unwanted engagement, and to follow the Vajrayana teacher Drime Ozer, who was then in Lhasa on pilgrimage from Golok in Eastern Tibet.^[4] She returned with him and his students to Golok, where she lived as a renunciate.

There, Sera Khandro became life partners with Garra Gyelse.^[3][4]

Garra Gyelsel disliked her Terma revelations, and this caused Sera Khandro to become sick.^[4] Her health returned when she left and returned to Drime Ozer with wh