Proud to be a Sikkimese: Sikkim Travel, Culture & Local Heritage

             Tashiding Monastery: A sacred Guru Rimpoche blessed –III   Studying Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö:  ii Volker Dencks, a Frenchman, contacted me from my blog ‘ Proud to be a Sikkimese ’ and shared with me about the great Tibetan teacher in Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö. He said various biographies were floating on the internet, but they don't mention Jamyang Khyentse Lodro's time in Sikkim. He further added that he was sending me some information about Jamyang Khyentse, where he needed my help. The blog ‘ Remembering the Masters ’ on Jamyang Khyentse writes that  in 1955/56, Crown Prince Thondup Namgyal traveled to Lhasa with a special mission on behalf of India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru: An invitation for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to join the celebrations for the 2,500 year anniversary of the birth of Buddha, which would enable him to forge international alliances, drawing...

-->   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...