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Sikkim
Dubdi means the retreat, and the three kilometres up out of Yuksom, about an hour on foot, earn the name before you arrive.
The name means Solitary Monastery, which stopped being accurate a long time ago.
Soldiers look after this temple, and it shows. A bureaucrat named Appaji Pant built the shrine over a stone in the upper reaches of Gangtok in 1950; the…
A Shiva temple at Legship in Gyalshing district, standing along the banks of the River Rangeet.
Only the monks here are entitled to be called ta-tshang, monks of pure lineage: celibate, without physical abnormality, and still drawn from among Sikkim's…
The murals are the reason to stop, an old collection held in a building that is itself a reconstruction of an early eighteenth-century monastery, which in…
Rumtek is the largest monastery in Sikkim and the seat-in-exile of the Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu (Black Hat) lineage.
Seventeenth-century, and among the oldest monasteries around Pelling, but the climb is what you will remember: four kilometres of steep track through thick…
Sikkimese Buddhists call this the heart of Denzong and hold it to be the holiest monastery in the state, a Nyingma gompa on a hilltop between the Rathong chu…
Six kilometres on foot from the hamlet of Damthang gets you here, and the walk through reserve forest is half the reason to come.
A Buddhist king gave the land for this one, the Chogyal of Sikkim in 1935, which tells you something about how Gangtok has worked.
