Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019
Historical Development of Monastic Landholdings in Sikkim
Gnudup Sangmo Bhutia
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This paper attempts to present a preliminary picture on how the Buddhist monasteries and their estates were established in Sikkim from 1642 onwards. The tradition of giving land grants to the monasteries by the rulers was an age old system and Sikkimese monasteries were not exception to this. However, this paper also attempts to present the changing situation faced by the monasteries under the British Officer
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MONASTIC LANDHOLDINGS IN SIKKIM, Gnudup Sangmo Bhutia PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019
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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MONASTIC LANDHOLDINGS IN SIKKIM, Gnudup Sangmo Bhutia PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019