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THE TIBETAN TEMPLE |
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On one of the
samadhi pillars there is Bengali inscription indicating that Daljit Gir Mahant had set up
an image of Mahadeva on the samadhi of Puran Gir Mahant. The more interesting part
of the inscription is a warning to the visiting Hindus, Muslims and followers of other
religious creeds that if they do not worship at the samadhi and the Siva linga, they will
surely go to Narak (hell). The date of the inscription is Sambat 1852, Sakabda 1717, and
Bangabda 1202, 23rd Baisakh on a calculation, the date of the inscription will be the
month of May in 1795 A.D.
The temple is a landmark in more than one sense. A Tibetan temple so near Calcutta,
set up a time when there were few other Tibetans in Bengal is by itself aninteresting
fact. The control of the monastery by the Dasanami Saiva Sannyasis is another
intriguing feature. The background story of the setting up of this Tibetan temple
attracted the attention of late Gour Das Basak, who made a certain amount of research and
his writing was published in the journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1890.2
2 Gaurdas Bysack, Buddhistic Monastery at
Bhot-bagan, March 1890. |
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