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Namdroling Monastery at Bylakuppe, Kushal Nagar. Kushalanagar is near Coorg of Karnataka state. Situated on the banks of Kaveri river, it is roughly 70 km from Hassan, 90 kms from Mysuru city and 230 km from the state capital Bengaluru. Bylakupe has the largest Tibetan Settlement in Southern India and monastery locally called as "Golden Temple". Due to the presence of the gold statues, it is also known as the golden temple.
The Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery or Golden Temple Coorg (or Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargye Ling)(བོད་ཡིག ཐེག་མཆོག་རྣམ་གྲོལ་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་གླིང་།) (Wylie: theg mchog rnam grol bshad sgrub dar rgyas gling) at Bylakuppe is the largest teaching center of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in the world. Located in Bylakuppe, part of the Mysuru district of the state of Karnataka, the monastery is home to a sangha community of over five thousand lamas (both monks and nuns). The monastery was established by the 11th throneholder of the Palyul lineage, His Holiness Drubwang Padma Norbu Rinpoche in 1963, following his 1959 exit from Tibet as the second seat of the Palyul Monastery, one of the six great Nyingmapa Mother monasteries of Tibet prior to annexation. A new temple, the "Padmasambhava Buddhist Vihara" (known by locals as the "Golden Temple") was inaugurated on September 24, 1999. The temple has space for several thousand monks.
The monastery's full name is Thegchog Namdrol Shedrub Dargyeling, called "Namdrolling or Namdroling" for short. Its initial structure was a temple constructed from bamboo, covering an area of approximately 80 square feet (7.4 m2). Carved from the jungle that the India government generously granted to Tibetan exiles. There are 2 monasteries nearby, one old and the other is new.
The 'Golden Temple or the Namdroling Monastery holds some excellent examples of Tibetan architecture and artwork. The red doors have giant golden knockers. . Inside are the enormous golden statues of Lord Buddha which is 60 feet in height and those of Guru Padmasambhava and Amitayur are 58 feet and is surrounded by paintings of Tibetan Buddhist mythology.
The ceremonies held in the Namdroling Monastery are the Tibetan New Year and the traditional Lama Dances also known as Losar Cham. The other Monastery nearby are Sera Monastery, Sakya Monastery and Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.
The floor is made of marble but is always covered with a carpet. The Namdroling Monastery also has sacred texts, horns, trumpets, incense sticks, bells, prayer beads, prayer wheels, prayer flags, drums, etc.
Nearby Coorg tourism has many other places of interest near by Coorg tourist places such the Kaveri Nisargadhama island, Dubare elephant camp, abbey falls, Kottu Holey dam, Gaddige Raja's tomb, Raja Seat, Bhagamandala Temple, Mount Thavoor, Madikeri Fort , Nisargadhama ,Chelavara Falls , Kotebetta, Kote Abbey (waterfalls ), Mandalpatti, Iruppu Falls, Talacauvery, St. Mark's Church, Omkareshwar Temple, Madikeri Fort, Dubare Elephant Camp and Pushpagiri and Brahmagiri Sanctuaries many more .
