Bylakuppe

Bylakuppe is the location of "Lugsum Samdupling" (established in 1961) and "Dickyi Larsoe" (established in 1969), two adjacent Tibetan refugee settlements, in the west of Mysore district. The nearest town is Kushalnagar in Kodagu in the State of Karnataka.

Population

According to a demographic survey carried out in 1998, the refugees make up a population of about 15 000. The settlements were established on land leased by the state government to accomodate some of the Tibetan refugees who came to resettle in India after 1959. It consists of a number of agricultural settlements / small camps close to each other, and has a number of monasteries, nunneries and temples in all the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Most notable among them are the large educational monastic institution Sera, the smaller Tashilunpo monastery (both in the Gelukpa tradition) and Namdroling monastery (in the Nyingma tradition).

The Tibetan settlement of Bylakuppe depicts the life and reflects the struggle of exiled Tibetan people living outside their homeland. They may look happy and cheerful but deep within all voice a desire for their identity and a longing for Tibet.

ee also

*Buddhism
*Karnataka

External links

* [http://www.tibet.net/home/eng/settlements/dickyi/ Brief description of Dickyi Larsoe]
* [http://www.tibet.net/home/eng/settlements/lugsum/ Brief description of Lugsum Samdupling]
* [http://www.serajeymonastery.org/ Sera monastery]
* [http://palyul.org/eng_centers_namdrol.htm/ Namdroling monastery]
* [http://nowrojee.com/kushalnagar.html Buddhism and Reaching Bylakuppe]
* [http://www.serajeyngari.org/ One of the houses at Sera Jey Monastic University]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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