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Mongar District
Mongar District (Dzongkha: མོང་སྒར་རྫོང་ཁག) is one of the twenty dzongkhags of Bhutan, located in the eastern part of the country. It serves as the principal commercial and administrative hub of eastern Bhutan, with its district capital at Mongar town, and is known for its terraced hillsides, subtropical valleys, and the historic Mongar Dzong.
Buxa Fort and the Duars
Buxa Fort, located in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal near the Bhutan border, has served successively as a Bhutanese frontier outpost, a British colonial detention camp, and a transit point for Tibetan refugees fleeing to India. Its layered history reflects the broader strategic importance of the Duars region as a contested borderland between Bhutan and the Indian plains.
Buxa Chogar
Buxa Chogar (formally Buxa Chogar Tosam Tardo Ling) was a monastic study centre established in 1959 for Tibetan refugee monks at the site of a former British colonial prison camp at Buxa Fort in West Bengal, India. Negotiated by the Dalai Lama with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the nonsectarian institution housed approximately 1,500 monks from the great monasteries of Tibet, including Drepung, Sera, and Ganden. Despite devastating conditions — tuberculosis killed nearly half the monks — Buxa Chogar preserved the scholarly traditions of Tibetan Buddhism through twelve years of intensive study before the community relocated to Bylakuppe and Mundgod in Karnataka in 1971.
Buxa Detention Camp
Buxa Fort, located in the Duars foothills of present-day West Bengal, was originally Bhutanese territory ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Sinchula in 1865. The British converted it into a detention camp for Indian independence activists, and after 1959, India housed Tibetan refugee monks there for over a decade.
Battle of the Great Raven (1714)
The 1714 repulsion of a Tibetan-Mongol invasion led in person by Lhazang Khan of the Khoshut Mongols, remembered in Bhutanese tradition as a victory granted by the raven-faced protector deity Jarok Donchen and conventionally cited as the last major Tibetan attempt to conquer Bhutan.
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