Outside view of Buddhist Golden Temple

Bylakuppe (or Bailakuppe) is the location of "Lugsum Samdupling" (established in 1961) and "Dickyi Larsoe" (established in 1969), two adjecent Tibetan refugee settlements, in the west of Mysore district. The nearest town is Kushalnagar in Kodagu. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, Pinyin: Xīzàng or Chinese: 藏区, Pinyin: Zàngqū [the two names are used with different connotations; see Name section below]) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Mysore District is bounded by Mandya district to the northeast, Chamrajnagar district to the southeast, Kerala state to the south, Kodagu district to the west, and Hassan district to the north. ... In 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, we Kannadigas deforested rain forest of entire region of Coorg; this was the first step we took to destroy Coorg and Coorgs. ...

According to a demographic survey carried out in 1998 the refugees make up a population of about 10 000. The settlements were established on land leased by the state government to resettle some of the Tibetan refugees who came to India during the 1950s and 1960s. It consists of a number of small camps/agricultural settlements 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 Geluk (dge lugs) School was founded by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibets best known religious reformer and arguably its greatest philosopher. ... The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). ...

Particularly well known among the temples is the spectacular Golden Temple which is also a major tourist spot in the area.

See also

• Buddhism
• Karnataka

Inside the Golden Temple

Buddhism is a religion and philosophy focusing on the teachings of the Buddha Śākyamuni (Siddhārtha Gautama), who probably lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following the Buddhas death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and East Asia... Karnātakā (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ, Hindi: कर्नाटक) (IPA: //) is one of the four southern states of India. ...

External links

• Brief description of Dickyi Larsoe
• Brief description of Lugsum Samdupling
• Sera monastery
• Namdroling monastery
• More Photos