I found this photograph inside a monastery at Gnathang, near Nathula Border. Very little is known about these people but the local people added that the person sitting was the Rimpoche of the Gnathang Monastery and the people surrounding were Sikkimese officials from British Administration.
Gnathang, situated at around 12,000 feet above sea level is the most crucial place in Sikkim that changed the political scenario of Sikkim's royal administration. A battle was fought between the British and Tibetans where with the defeat of the Tibetans, Sikkim too came under the scanner of becoming the British Protectorate. Thus Sikkim's administration went into the hands of the British. the year was 1890.
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Tsampa Lama Ngathang Lingpa - He is also known as Burma Lama (bur ma bla ma) as he later left Sikkim and went to Burma. Some even say he originally came from Burma. Actually some twenty years ago there arrived a letter from Rangoon/Yangoon, Burma, in Nathang village, also spelt Ngathang, asking about possible descendants of the Lama. However, no villager was left who could remember him and there was no exchange with his descendents in Burma.
Legend has it that Yetis frequently roamed about his meditation site. Moreover, it is said that Tshampa Rinpoche kept one Yeti as his assistant to collect firewood. Still, one day a quarrel occurred between the Rinpoche and the Yeti, so he shifted to a new meditation site known as Tsampa Khangla Sharpo.
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