This monastery is about 8 kilometers from Darjeeling town just below the Ghoom railway station. Yiga Choling Monastery also known as Ghoom Monastery is the largest of Darjeeling’s three main monasteries.
This monastery was built in 1875 by Lama Sherab Gyatso and houses statues of Buddhist deities and lamas like Chenrezig (Avalokitesvara – the Buddha of Compassion), Tsongkhapa (the founder of the Tibetan Gelugpa sect) and Jampeyang (Maitreya – the Buddha of the future). This monastery also is home to a large collection of Buddhist texts including the 108-volume Kangyur, the Tibetan Buddhist canon.
