SACRED SPACE IN WEST SIKKIM Kanchendzonga Legend Sacred mountain deity Sacred cave Lake Mountain pass Waterfall Stream Monastery Enthronement site of first king INDIA of Namgyal dynasty SIKKIM Second palace of the Sikkimese NEPAL Namgyal Dynasty Megastatue u h Urban center C Gangtok i g Town n i Village R Talu ng C h u u h C k e r P Dzongri La Stream Rathong Chu Prek Chu Prek Coronation Throne and Norbu Gang Dubdi eam Chorten Yoksam Str Monastery Lhari Nyinphug Pawo Hungri Khechopelri Lake Phamrong Sangchen StreamStream Rat Stream hong Pemayangtse Coronation Throne Chu and Norbu Gang Dubdi Monastery Chorten Yoksam t Monastery Rangeet ee Teesta ng Ra Pawo Hungri T Khechopelri Chombong Arithang Tashiding e Lake e Hungri stream Monastery Phamrong Sangchen s Pemayangtse t a Sindrang Monastery Dechenphug Sakyong Chombong Arithang Tashiding Hungri stream Monastery ta Sindrang es Darap Naku Sakyong Te Singyang Darap Naku Singyang Tikjuk Rabdentse Pelling Rabdentse Thegchoyangsi Yangthey Pelling Tikjuk Gezing Thegchoyangsi Kyongsa Avalokitesvara Sharchobayphug Yangthey Sangha Megastatue Choeling Monastery Khandro Gezing Sangphug Kyongsa Avalokitesvara R Sangha a Megastatue n g Choeling i Rishi t R Monastery a n g Khandro i t Sangphug 0 14 28 42 56 70 k Rotha Miles * Name of site (Popular spelling) Name of site (Wylie) * Name of site (Popular spelling) Name of site (Wylie) 1 Coronation Throne and Norbu Gang Chorten Gser thri (throne) གསེར་޲ི་; Nor bu sgang mchod rten ནོར་孴་鮒ང་མཆོད་讟ེན (Stupa)་ 17 Hungri stream Hung ri 齴ང་རི་ 2 Khechopelri Lake Mkha' spyod dpal ri མཁའ་སྤྱོད་དཔལ་རི་ 18 Darap Da rap ད་རཔ་ 3 Avalokitesvara Megastatue Spyan ras gzigs སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ 19 Yoksam Yug bsam ཡོག་བསམ་ 4 Dubdi Monastery Grub sde གྲུབ་鮡ེ་ 20 Pelling Pad gling པད་ளིང་ 5 Tashiding Monastery Bkra shis ldings dgon pa བβ་ཤིས་辡ིངས་དགོན་པ་ 21 Gezing Rgyal shing རྒྱལ་ཤིང་ 6 Sangchen Pemayangtse Monastery Gsang chen pad ma yang rtse dgon pa གསང་ཆེན་པད་མ་ཡང་让ེ་དགོན་པ་ 22 Chombong Gcong phung གཅོང་坴ང་ 7 Sangha Choeling Monastery Sang sngags chos gling སང་鮔གས་ཆོས་ளིང་ 23 Sindrang Zin da rang ཟིན་ད་རང་ 8 Dzongri La Rdzong ri la 讫ོང་རི་ལ་ 24 Singyang Zin gyang ཟིན་றང་ 9 Khandro Sangphug Mkha’ ’gro gsang phug མཁའ་འலོ་གསང་坴ག་ 25 Phamrong Phag mo rong ཕག་མོ་རོང་ 10 Lhari Nyinphug Lha ris snying phug 辷་རིས་鮙ིང་坴ག་ 26 Naku Na ko ན་ཀོ་ 11 Sharchobayphug Shar phyogs sbas phug ཥར་垱ོགས་鮦ས་坴ག་ 27 Arithang A ri thang ཨ་རི་ཐང་ 12 Dechenphug Bde chen phug བདེ་ཆེན་坴ག་ 28 Sakyong Sa skong ས་སྐྱོང 13 Kanchendzonga Gangs chen mdzod lnga གངས་ཆེན་མཛོད་辔་ 29 Yangthey G.yang thing / གཡང་ཏེང་ 14 Pawo Hungri Dpa’ bo hung ri དཔའ་བོ་齴ང་རི་ 30 Kyongsa Kyong sa αོང་ས 15 Thegchoyangsi Theg phyogs yang rtse ཐེག་垱ོགས་ཡང་让ེ་ 31 Tikjuk Tig 'jugs ཏིག་འὴགས 16 Rabdentse Rab ldan rtse རབ་辡ན་让ེ་ Map designed by Raul Montero Quispe This map features sacred sites in West Sikkim described in MAVCOR Journal vol. 5 issue 2 Special Issue Material Religion of High Altitude Ecologies.