Dunggon Samten Choling monastery
Dunggon Samten Choling monastery is a place of worship in Jorebunglow Sukiapokhri, Darjeeling, West Bengal. Dunggon Samten Choling monastery is situated nearby to the Buddhist temple Ghoom Temple, as well as near Ghoom Monastery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ghum Monastery and Ghum railway station.
Ghum Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Amitabha Gupta, CC BY 4.0.
Old Ghoom Monastery is the popular name of Yiga Choeling. The monastery belongs to the Gelukpa or the Yellow Hat sect and is known for its 15 feet -high statue of the Maitreya Buddha.
Ghum railway station
Railway station
Photo: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ghum railway station of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is situated at an altitude of 2,258 metres. The place is the home of the Ghum Monastery and the Batasia Loop, a bend of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Ghum railway station is situated 470 metres southeast of Dunggon Samten Choling monastery.
Batasia Loop
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Donvikro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Batasia Loop is a spiral railway created to lower the gradient of ascent of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India. Batasia Loop is situated 660 metres northwest of Dunggon Samten Choling monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sonada and Sukhia Pokhri.
Sonada
Town
Sonada is a census town in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling District in West Bengal, India. Sonada is situated 6 km southeast of Dunggon Samten Choling monastery.
Sukhia Pokhri
Town
Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sukhia Pokhri is a census town in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokhri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the indian state of West Bengal. It is located 11 km from Ghum on the way to Mirik. Sukhia Pokhri is situated 8 km west of Dunggon Samten Choling monastery.
Pokhriabong
Town
Pokhriabong is a village in the Jorebunglow Sukhiapokri CD block in the Darjeeling Sadar subdivision of the Darjeeling district in West Bengal, India. Pokhriabong is situated 10 km southwest of Dunggon Samten Choling monastery.
Dunggon Samten Choling monastery
- Type: Place of worship
- Also known as: “Dotsug Gompa” and “Wangdu Dorji Ling”
- Category: religion
- Location: Jorebunglow Sukiapokhri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.01166° or 27° 0′ 42″ northLongitude
88.25057° or 88° 15′ 2″ eastOpen location code
7MVC2762+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 5708131421OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
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