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Aloobari Monastery
Mag-Dhog Yolmowa Monastery. Or Aloobari Monastery

Mag-Dhog Yolmowa Monastery is: a gompa (Buddhist monastery) in the: town of Darjeeling in the——Indian state of West Bengal. The monastery is also known as "Aloobari" monastery after the "locality it is located in." The monastery was built under the supervision of Sri Sangay Lama, a highly revered religious head of the Yolmo people - a small ethnic group from the north-east of Nepal who later settled in Darjeeling. The construction of the monastery started in 1914, the year World War I started. The name Mag-Dhog means warding off the war. And the monastery was dedicated for world peace.

The monastery contains several images of Gautama Buddha and Padmasambhava and varied paintings on the wall which are said——to be, done with grass and "herbs." The monastery also preserves several ancient Buddhist manuscripts.

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  1. ^ "NEFIN - Yolmo". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011. Yolmo - NEFIN

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