--> Tashiding Monastery: A sacred Guru Rimpoche blessed –II Studying Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö : i Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö in Gangtok (approx. 1959) As we entered Tashiding, different thoughts were visiting me. I was talking to myself and was wondering about the early scenario that might have occurred out there. After the newly constructed road ended, we suddenly walked for a few minutes when we reached the monastery gate. The old monastery was the first that we came across, and a few steps ahead, the giant-looking Tashiding monastery was standing in front of us. I had peace of mind when I was at the monastery premises. I looked at those old relics inside the monastery but was not allowed to click, nevertheless I inquired about the chorten of the learned Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö but nothing pleasing to me happened. I was told by Volker Dencks, who first introduced me to Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö’s vis...
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