abstract:Shedra is a Tibetan word (བཤད་གྲྭ, bshad grwa) meaning "place of teaching" but specifically refers to the educational program in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries. It is usually attended by monks and nuns between their early teen years and early twenties.
A few months before, at Losar that year, when a ritual dance was being performed at Kham-je Shedra back in Tibet, manyof the oldermonks had a visionof him, appearinginthe sky.