Entrance to Namdroling Monastery Bylakuppe near Kodagu in Karnataka is a little Tibet. In 1960, the government of Mysore (now Karnataka) allotted about 3000 acres of land to the Tibetan refugees. Today nearly 70,000 people of Tibetan origin live in that place which attracts a lot of tourists. The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery is one of the attractions. Established in 1963 by Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche, the monastery educates hundreds of monks who graduate after a ten-year course which includes a three-year period of spiritual retreat. Inside the Golden Temple The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into old Tibetan language carried out in the 8 th century CE. The Tibetan alphabet and grammar were created just for this endeavour, according to certain traditions. One of the plaques inside the Golden Temple ...
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