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Tengboche Monastery is located on a hill at the confluence of the Dudh Kosi and the Imja Khola rivers. It lies in Khumbu district to the north east of Kathmandu on the Nepal – Tibet border. It is inhabited by sherpas ('sherpa' literally means the easterner) who migrated from Tibet six hundred years ago.
Tengboche and the Tengboche Monastery complex built around the village are considered the oldest Sherpa celibate monastery. Sherpas (Sherpas are Tibetans who migrated from Tibet and settled in this region of Nepal about 450 years ago) who form the main social community of the region were a pastoral, agricultural and trading community.
Phugmoche Monastery (or Phugmoche Gonpa), also known as Karma Chos-gLing. This monastery is situated in the Phugmoche village, Dudhkunda Municipality, Solu region of eastern Nepal. It was built in 1938 by Nyang-rigs bLa-ma Ngag-dBang-Yon-tan-rGya-mTsho. It is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Sherpa community.
In the 1980s-1990s, Richard J. Kohn worked on university research focused on the Mani Rimdu. The Mani Rimdu festival is performed in the Sherpa and Tibetan monasteries of Solu Khumbu District in the Everest region of Nepal: Chiwong, Thami, Tengboche Monastery. Nowadays, Mani Rimdu is the biggest event of the year for the Sherpas of the Khumbu ...
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It contains a monastery, famed for its purported yeti scalp and hand, the latter of which was stolen. [2] The village is inhabited mainly by Sherpas, and Sungdare Sherpa, a native of the village, held the record for summiting Everest five times in the Sherpa climbing history and in the world history of mountaineering in 1989. [3]
Tengboche was the first celibate monastery in Solu-Khumbu. Sherpa people also live in Tingri County , Bhutan , and the Indian states of Sikkim and the northern portion of West Bengal , specifically the district of Darjeeling and Kalimpong
The monastery's vast treasury of books and costumes, which had been taken for safekeeping to Tengboche, was lost in a 1989 fire. [citation needed] Since 1983 renovation work has been carried out and some of the new murals are reportedly excellent. Adjacent to the monastery there is a basic guesthouse and small but cosy restaurant. [12]