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Early modern · Buddhist · India
Dubdi Monastery
Yuksom, West Sikkim, Sikkim · 27.0670°, 88.4670°
Buddha (Nyingma school)Namgyal (Chogyal)Tibetan
Sacred since
1701 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1701 (Namgyal / Chogyal)
Namgyal (Chogyal)
History & significance
The oldest monastery in Sikkim, founded in 1701 above Yuksom, where the three lamas had crowned Phuntsog Namgyal as the first Chogyal in 1642. A two-storeyed square stone building facing south under a tapering tower, its name means the retreat; it once housed thirty monks and remains a stop on the Buddhist pilgrimage circuit.