Yiga Choeling | Ghoom Monastery - Travel-Of-India

Ghoom Monastery - Yiga Choeling Monastery

Yiga Choeling & Ghoom Monastery is a Buddhist temple located at an altitude of about 7,407 feet above sea level. Yiga Choeling Buddhist Monastery is popularly known as Ghoom Monastery as it is located in Ghoom, the town of Darjeeling. It is located just 7 km below the city of Ghoom. The monastery is a small temple in jelukpa or yellow color. The monastery was founded in 1850 by the Mongolian astrologer and monk Sokpo Sherab Gayasto. The main attraction of this monastery is that there is a 15 feet high Tibetan earthen statue of Lord Gautam Buddha. People from all over the world come to see this clay statue.

In 1850, the Mongolian astrologer and monk Sokpo Sherab Gayasto was the first major monk. He founded this monastery. He was a Tibetan monk. He was the head of the monastery until 1905. Then he returned to his home country of Tibet. Then Lama Domo Geshe Rinpoche was appointed in 1909, Dhardo Rimpoche in 1961, and Tenzin Legshad Wandi in 1990.

The temple and Lord Gautam Buddha statue have remained standing since 1850. Really very strange. The locals think that the auspicious power of Lord Gautam Buddha is here. Surprisingly, there are two huge oil lamps in front of the Buddha statue that burn throughout the year.

Inside the Yiga Choling Monastery are earthen Buddha statues and images of Gayasto. The manuscripts of the Buddha also contain 108 The Kangyur and Tibetan Buddhist Canon, Large Bells and Drums.