Yiga Choling Gompa
Times of IndiaTimes Travel Editor/SIGHTSEEING IN DARJEELING/ Updated : Apr 21, 2016, 11:26 IST
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This Gompa houses splendid antique murals and more than 300 Tibetan texts with highly artistic bindings.
This Gompa houses splendid antique murals and more than 300 Tibetan texts with highly artistic bindings. Read less

Built in 1850, the Yiga Choling Gompa is located a little to the west of the town of Ghum, and is the region’s most famous monastery, patronised by monks of the yellow-hat sect. Apart from the five-metre-high statue of the Maitreya Buddha, it also houses splendid antique murals and more than 300 Tibetan texts with highly artistic bindings. A quick 10-minute-long walk off Hill Cart road, it’s definitely worth a visit.
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