BUMTAR/BOOMTAR NAMDROLING GONPA

Bumtar Gonpa, officially named Namdroling is situated just below Namchi town, south Sikkim. This Gonpa was established originally in the year 1926 at the banks of Gattey River. In the year 1950 due to landslides, the shifting of Gonpa was discussed to somewhere of safe place from the banks of Gattey River. After a couple of years Col. R.S. Rai donated the land for the Gonpa. In the year 1959 Bhumi Puja (Salang) was done for the new (present Gonpa). By the year 1961 Bumtar Namdroling Gonpa (present Gonpa) was established at the present location. The original Gonpa was destroyed by the flood in the year 1968.