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View of Druk Thubten Sangag Choeling Monastery or Dali gompa.
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In 1960, the eleventh Gyalwang Drukchen Tenzin Khenrab Gelek Wangpo passed away, leaving his Ennence Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche as regent of the Drukpa Kargyud Lineage. He started building the Druk Thubten Sangag Choling Monastery at Dali, Darjeeling in 1971. Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche stated that the sole aim
of this monastery was to preserve the precious Dharma, the Tibetan culture and its traditions. This monastery was inaugurated by His Holiness The Dalai Lama in 1993, where he gave three days of religious teachings. It is the only monastery in the eastern region to have disciples and monks from the Himalayan region. At present there are 210 monks.
Darjeeling is a town in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of Darjeeling district, in the Shiwalik Hills on the lower range of the Himalaya. The name 'Darjeeling' is a combination of the Tibetan words Dorje ('thunderbolt') and ling ('place'), translating as "The land of the thunderbolt". During the British Raj in India, Darjeeling's temperate climate led to its development as a hill station for British residents to escape the heat of the plains during the summers. Darjeeling is internationally popular for its tea industry and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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