Ghum Monastery (Yiga Choeling)

West Bengal · India

Ghum Monastery (Yiga Choeling), India
Photo: Amitabha Gupta, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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One of the oldest Tibetan monasteries near Darjeeling, this hillside gompa houses a large statue of the Maitreya Buddha. It stands at a misty ridge along the famous narrow-gauge railway line.

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