Over the past four months, the directors, teachers, and students of Palpung Sherabling Tantric College completed this year’s classes on inner science and other fields of knowledge with great diligence and dedication, after which the annual examination on scriptures and Buddhist sciences was held under the supervision of the Tantric College’s steadfast and learned teachers, along with the khenpos, acharyas, and staff of various departments of the monastic seat.

On September 2, 2026, the exams on The Gateway to Knowledge, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas were conducted, From September 5–8, students took their exams covering key texts like The Mirror of Poetics and Situ’s commentaries. They were also tested on practical monastic arts—making tormas and torma ornaments, playing ritual instruments (long horns, drums, and cymbals), drawing proportional designs, creating mandalas, and practicing calligraphy in the Lantsa, headed block-letter, and Drutsa scripts.

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