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In 1960, the Government of Mysore (as Karnataka was called at that time) allotted nearly 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of land at Bylakuppe in Mysore district in Karnataka and the first ever Tibetan exile settlement, Lugsung Samdupling came into existence in 1961. A few years later another settlement, Tibetan Dickey Larsoe, also called TDL, was ...
With the help of the Government of India, the Tibetan administration, in the early 1960s, proposed to start a number of settlements for the Tibetan refugees. Tibetan settlement in Mundgod is one of them. Government of India in consultation with the state Government of Karnataka agreed to provide 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of mostly forestland near ...
Tibetan colony Mundgod. The Tibetan settlement at Mundgod, [8] is located 45 km from Hubli-Dharwad. and the settlement at Mundgod is the largest in India. It was founded in 1966. Now there are nine camps with two monasteries and a nunnery. One of the monasteries is Rato Dratsang.
The Tibetan diaspora is the relocation of Tibetan people from Tibet, their country of origin, to other nation states to live as exiles and refugees in communities. The diaspora of Tibetan people began in the early 1950s, peaked after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, and continues. Tibetan emigration has four separate stages.
With the settlements, the state acquired the largest Tibetan refugee population out of every Indian state. As of 2020, Karnataka has 12 schools run by and for the Tibetan community. [52] Other states have provided land for Tibetans. Bir Tibetan Colony is a settlement in Bir, Himachal Pradesh.
The Golden temple at the Tibetan settlement in Khushalnagar, Coorg district, Karnataka, India The Dalai Lama visiting the Tibetan Children's Villages student art centre at Gopalpur, Himachal Pradesh. Tibetans in India have been accommodated by the Indian government in 45 residential settlements across 10 states in the country.
In 1983, Rato Dratsang was re-established in a Tibetan refugee settlement near Mungod, in Karnataka, India. The monastery initially consisted of a temple, a few monks' room, and a kitchen, all in a two-story building on one quarter-acre of land given to the few surviving Rato monks who had come from Tibet, by Drepung Loseling Monastery.
The Ganden Monastery is in the Tibetan settlement at Mundgod. This settlement of Tibetan refugees is the largest of its kind in India and was first established in 1966, from land donated by the Indian government. In the Tibetan settlement near Mundgod are the Ganden and the Drepung Monastery. In 1999 there were about 13,000 residents.