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  2. Dharamshala - Wikipedia

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    Dharamshala ( / ˈdɑːrəmʃɑːlə /, Hindi: [d̪ʱərmʃaːlaː]; also spelled Dharamsala) is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It serves as the winter capital of the state and the administrative headquarters of the Kangra district since 1855. [5] [6] [7] The town also hosts the Tibetan Government-in-exile.

  3. Namgyal Monastery - Wikipedia

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    Tibetan Buddhism. Namgyal Monastery ( Tibetan: རྣམ་རྒྱལ།, Wylie: rnam rgyal) (also often referred to as "Dalai Lama's Temple") is currently located in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala, India. It is the personal monastery of the 14th Dalai Lama. Another name for this temple-complex is Namgyal Tantric College .

  4. Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    McLeod Ganj, also called Little Lhasa, capital of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. Buddhism in the Himachal Pradesh state of India of has been a long-recorded practice. The spread of Buddhism in the region has occurred intermediately throughout its history. Starting in the 3rd century BCE, Buddhism was propagated by the Maurya Empire under the ...

  5. Norbulingka Institute - Wikipedia

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    Norbulingka Institute. Norbulingka Institute, with Dhauladhar range in the background. Established. 1995. Location. Himachal Pradesh, India. Norbulingka Institute, founded in 1995 by Kelsang and Kim Yeshi at Sidhpur, near Dharamshala, India, is dedicated to the preservation of the Tibetan culture in its literary and artistic forms.

  6. McLeod Ganj - Wikipedia

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    Hindi, English, Tibetan, Gaddi, Pahari, Nepali, Punjabi. Time zone. UTC+5:30 ( IST) PIN. 176219. Telephone Code. 01892. McLeod Ganj or McLeodganj (pronounced / məˈklaʊd ˌɡʌndʒ /) is a suburb of Dharamshala in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is known as "Little Lhasa " or "Dhasa" as the Tibetan government-in-exile is ...

  7. Tibet Museum (Dharamshala) - Wikipedia

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    Established. 5 October 1999. Location. Dharamshala, India. Collection size. Approx. 30,000 photographs. The Tibet Museum is the official museum of the Central Tibetan Administration 's Department of Information and International Relations and is located IN CTA complex in T building , in the Dharamshala suburb of McLeod Ganj.

  8. Kirti Gompa - Wikipedia

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    Kirti Jepa Datsang Gompa is located in Dharamsala, India. It was built in 1992 to house Tibetan exile monks from Tibet. Today, the monks number approximately 200 and includes Kirti Rinpoche. Darjeeling Kirti Gompa. This is a small Kirti Monastery in Darjeeling, India with approximately 40 monks. Ceremonies

  9. Sera Monastery - Wikipedia

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    Sera Monastery ( Tibetan: སེ་ར་དགོན་པ, Wylie: se ra dgon pa "Wild Roses Monastery"; [1] Chinese: 色拉寺; pinyin: Sèlā Sì) is one of the "great three" Gelug university monasteries of Tibet, located 1.25 miles (2.01 km) north of Lhasa and about 5 km (3.1 mi) north of the Jokhang. [2] (. The other two are Ganden ...