Pema Yoko in Sikkim
The last Chogyal of Sikkim Palden Thondup Namgyal
The history of Sikkim begins with the lepchas. Eventually there was the establishment of a Tibetan kingdom, Chogyal in the 17th century [wikipedia]. From 1642 to 1975, Sikkim was ruled by the Namgyal Monarchy known as the Chogyal Monarchy, founded by the fifth-generation descendants of Guru Tashi, a prince of the Minyak House who came to Sikkim from Kham, eastern Tibet. Cool, nah?!
During my visit i was lucky enough to get a special tour by the head researcher of Namgyal Institute of Tibetology. There I was able to view some of the most amazing photographs of the past Chogyals, get to know Buddhism a bit more as well as our traditional way of life back in Tibet.
So today i would just like to introduce to you Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and other reasons to visit Sikkim. ENJOY!
Sikkim was originally inhabited by the Lepchas, not Hindus, and their land has been successively occupied by people from Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal and India.
you are totally right, when i read your comment i was thinking ‘omg you idiot’ refering to myself. the one thing i learnt was about the lepcha people from my tour guide friend.
i actually got this line from online and overlooked it due to lazyness. i will change this, thanks.
🙂 Its great you know about the Lepchas
Reblogged this on tibetencore.
ཐུགས་རྗེཆེ།་ལྷག་དཀར་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུས་པ་ལ་ང་ཡང་འདི་རིང་ནས་བཟུང་སྟེ། ལྷག་དཀར་སྲུང་བརྩི་ཞུ་ཡི་ཡིན།
ང་ཡང་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་ནས་ཡིན། འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ་ཚོ་ཡང་རང་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་སྐད་ལ་ཤུགས་སྐྱོན་དགོས་། ད་ལྟའི་ཆར་འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ་ཚོའི་མི་རིགས་ཀྱི་བསམ་བློ་འམ་རང་གི་རིགས་གཞུང་གཅེས་འཛིན་གྱི་བསལ་བློ་དམན་པོ་རེད་།་་་་་་་གོ་གང་ས་ནས་ཤུགས་སྐྱོན་དགོས་