Tashi Choling is one of the many hermitages above Sera Monastery outside of Lhasa, although formally, while associated with Sera Me College and the Tantric College at Sera, it is officially independent. It was devoped by Lazang Khan in the early eighteenth century as the winter residence for his tantric monks, and, more recently, was controlled by the Second Pabongkha, Dechen Nyingpo.