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The Bhutia Busty monastery is is located just 1.5 kilometres from Chowrasta. With a long and colourful history, the monastery belongs to the Red Sect of Buddhist Lamas.The origin of name Darjeeling is linked to this monastery 'Dorjee', means thunderbolt in Tibetan and 'Ling' means resting place, thus 'Place' of the 'Thunderbolt' which was the name of the Monastery, originally located on the Observatory Hill before it was sacked by the Nepalese in the 19th century and rebuilt on the present site. The ill-fated Monastery was destroyed by the 1934 earthquake and owes its present existence to the munificence of the Late Raja of Sikkim.
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