Bhutia Busty monastery or Karma Dorjee Chyoling monastery is a

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monastery located in

Bhutia Busty Bhutia Busty is a small town located at Darjeeling Municipality area in West Bengal. The famous Bhutia Busty Monastery is also located at this place. It belongs to the Red Sect of Tibetan Buddhist Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism ...

, Darjeeling district,

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. It belongs to the Red Sect of Buddhist

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History

Originally a branch of the

Kagyupa The ''Kagyu'' school, also transliterated as ''Kagyü'', or ''Kagyud'' (), which translates to "Oral Lineage" or "Whispered Transmission" school, is one of the main schools (''chos lugs'') of Tibetan (or Himalayan) Buddhism. The Kagyu lineag ...

sect's Phodang Monastery in Sikkim, it was transferred to Darjeeling in 1879. The original location was on the Observatory Hill. The monastic practice was violently interrupted around 1788, when Nepali troops overran the land, destroyed the monastery and converted Dotsug into a place of worship dedicated to

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. The foreign troops were driven out by the

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during the

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and the territory was returned to the

Chogyal The Chogyal ("Dharma Kings", ) were the monarchs of the former Kingdom of Sikkim, which belonged to the Namgyal dynasty, . The Chogyal was the absolute monarch of Sikkim from 1642 to 1973, and the constitutional monarch from 1973 to 1975, wh ...

of Sikkim in 1817. In the 1860s the monastery was relocated to its present location in Bhutia Busty. However, the monastery in the new location was also destroyed by an earthquake in 1934. The

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helped rebuild it. The monastery has a collection of old Buddhist scripts. One of the original pieces of the "Book of Dead" is its prized possession. The 193-year-old Sangchhen Thongdor Ling Gonpa or Ging Gompa (8 kilometers from town) which was set up by

Pemayangtse monastery The Pemayangtse Monastery is a Buddhist monastery in Pemayangtse, near Gyalshing city in Gyalshing district in the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, located 6 km from Gyalshing city, the district headquarters, 110 km west of Gangtok. ...

(West Sikkim) in 1818 and subscribes to the Kagyu sect.

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