Jetsun Kunkhen Lodroe Rinchen Senge is the founder of Sera Jey Monastery. He was a devoted and noble disciple of Lama Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelukpa Tradition. He was a master at Drepung Monastery and fate led him to leave with hundreds of his disciple to form Sera Jey Monastery. He was the first abbot of Sera Jey Monastery and instituted Tamdin Yangsang (Haya-griva) as the presiding deity of Sera Jey.