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    Labrang Monastery (Sikkim), (lit. 'lama's dwelling', a.k.a. Palden Phuntshog Phodrang or Palden Phuntsok Monastery) is a Buddhist monastery located in...
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    Monastery (Tibetan: རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: rum theg dgon pa), also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim...
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    Mindrolling Monastery (Tibetan: སྨིན་གྲོལ་གླིང་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: min-dröl-ling gön-pa, THL: smin-grol-gling dgon-pa, English: "Sublime Island of Ripening...
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  • List of Himalayan monasteries and shrines is a list of Buddhist monasteries and shrines in the Himalayas. Buddhism had spread to the Himalayan region...
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  • total of 77 monasteries in Sikkim. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Monasteries in Sikkim. Gulia, K.S. (2007), "Monasteries in Sikkim: A geographical...
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    Phodong (category Sikkim geography stubs)
    of the Indian state of Sikkim in North Sikkim district. Phodong is famous for the Phodong Monastery and the Labrang Monastery which is situated at a slightly...
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  • This is the list of Tibetan monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism. Samye Monastery in Dranang Ganden Monastery in Lhasa with some ruins visible from destruction...
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    Alexander Berzin, Katog has 112 branch monasteries, not only in Tibet, but also in Mongolia, Inner China, Yunnan, and Sikkim. For instance, Katog Rigdzin-tsewang-norbu...
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    Kyabje Rinpoche (category Sera Monastery)
    personally visited the former abbot of Sera Je Monastery, Thubten Rinpoche just prior to his death (video) at his Labrang. After meeting with Kyabje Khensur Kangyur...
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    16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (category Scholars from Sikkim)
    Karmapa as part of his plan to modernize Tibet. The Karmapa's Labrang, where the Tsurphu Monastery's administration was located, appealed the decision saying...
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    Losoong Festival (category Sikkim)
    festival is preceded by masked dance at the Phodong and Rumtek Monasteries in Sikkim. Losoong is celebrated not only in India but also in Nepal and Bhutan...
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    Alchi Monastery (Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕི་ཆོས་འཁོར།) or Alchi Gompa (Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕི་དགོམ་པ།, also Alci) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic...
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    of the Kadhampa Dharmaraja (The 25th Atisha Jiangqiu Tilei), Nepal Labrang Monastery in eastern Amdo Kumbum Jampaling in central Amdo Jokhang Temple in...
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  • done in Sera Jey Monastery, followed by ceremonies at Drati Khangtsen and Tsangpa Khangtsen. At his official residence, the Labrang, he showed remarkable...
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    Dzongsar Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (category Scholars from Sikkim)
    was performed at a stupa at Tashiding Monastery, Sikkim, and his remains are kept in the Royal Chapel of Sikkim. In 1961 Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche...
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    the book E MA HO! published by the Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang and can be obtained from Pullahari Monastery and viewed on www.jamgonkongtrul.org. He spent time...
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    later absorbed into the control of neighbouring Bhutan and Tibet. Tawang Monastery was founded by the Merak Lama Lodre Gyatso in 1681 in accordance with...
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    Gompa (category Buddhist monasteries)
    by Rangan Datta Article on Tashiding Gompa, Sikkim by Rangan Datta Travel Article on Gompas of West Sikkim by Rangan Datta Rangan Datta's Home Page WanderingScapes:...
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  • འཇིགས་མེད་བློ་གསལ་དབང་པོ, Wylie: 'jigs med blo gsal dbang po), was born in Gangtok, Sikkim in 1964, as the younger brother of Sogyal Rinpoche. He was enthroned by...
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    February 15, 2022. He was 32 years of age when he passed at the Dudjom Labrang, his residence in Tibet. The Bhutanese Dudjom Yangsi Rinpoche, Dudjom Tenzin...
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  • receives 'Vajra Master' title". Sikkim Express, Gangtok. Archived from the original on April 13, 2015. Pema Namding Monastery, Regd No.31. AFF No. 17989 Dzambhala...
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  • the Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim, India. He oversees a number of Thrangu establishments in several parts of the world. The new Canadian monastery will be under...
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    17th century. These included Darchen, Labrang Monastery,[clarification needed] Gartok and several smaller monasteries and villages near Mount Kailas. A Chinese...
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    of Sikkim to settle a dispute while there he founded three monasteries, one of them being in Rumtek, which is currently the most important monastery of...
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    Losar (category National symbols of Sikkim)
    depending on location tradition (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Ladakh) The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first...
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    journeyed to Sikkim in order to 'open' Beyul Demoshong, a beyul fabled to exist on the slopes of Mount Kanchenjunga straddling the Nepal/Sikkim border. He...
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    surrounding the Himalayas, including the Indian regions of Ladakh, Darjeeling, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh, as well as in Nepal. Smaller groups of practitioners...
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  • Tibetan Studies, Vol. I. Wien 1997, p. 422. Paul Kocot Nietupski, Labrang monastery: A Tibetan Buddhist community on the Inner Asian borderlands, 1709-1958...
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    Trinley Thaye Dorje (category Scholars from Sikkim)
    Karmapa and can therefore, according to the Trust, live in Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. However, because the monks currently in physical control of Rumtek...
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  • maintenance of the monastery, and for the monks' medical fees. The administration of the monastery was the responsibility of the Tsurphu Labrang, which was organized...
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