Ghoom Monastery

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Ghoom Monastery is the popular name of the Yiga-Choling Monastery located at Ghoom near the town of Darjeeling in the state of West Bengal, India. The monastery belongs to the Yellow Sect of Buddhists. There is a famed statue of "Coming Buddha" (Maitreya Buddha) in the monastery.

It was built in 1875 by Lama Sherab Gyatso. Rare scripts on Buddhism have been kept in the monastery for decades.

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• Religious shrines around Darjeeling
• Monasteries in Darjeeling