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Sikkim
Sikkim , state (2001 provisional pop. 540,493), 2,745 sq mi (7,110 sq km), India. It is located in the E Himalayas and bordered by Nepal (W), by the Tibet region of China (N), by Bhutan (E), and by the Indian state of West Bengal (S). The capital and only town is Gangtok. Most of Sikkim is mountaino... Read more

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Sikkim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Nepalese practice Hinduism, Buddhism was professed by the former chogyal ( "king under the religious laws" ) and the official class...s last vestiges of independence, deposing the kingdom's chogyal. Sikkim became India's 22d state. It is governed by a chief...

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RAY BAN OFF, FILM ON SIKKIM TO SEE LIGHT OF DAY
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/7/2008; 472 words ; ...after Sikkim became an Indian state in 1975. The Chogyal, or former King of Sikkim, had some scenes cut...particularly a scene where a crowd prostrated before the Chogyal.While the Chogyal commissioned Ray to make the 60-minute documentary...
RAY BAN OVER, FILM ON SIKKIM TO SEE LIGHT OF DAY
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 11/7/2008; 473 words ; ...after Sikkim became an Indian state in 1975. The Chogyal, or former King of Sikkim, had some scenes cut...particularly a scene where a crowd prostrated before the Chogyal.While the Chogyal commissioned Ray to make the 60-minute documentary...
Winter Getaways: Take a journey to a magical kingdom Kings, princesses, ancient sects: you'd be forgiven for thinking the storyline was stolen from the latest Disney blockbuster. But before Sikkim became part of India in the mid-Seventies, it had more than its fair share of fairy-tale romance. Lucy Gillmore pays a visit
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...in 1975. In the early 1960s the last Chogyal, or king, of Sikkim met a beautiful...They fell in love, married and the Chogyal spirited his bride back to his remote...children back to New York, leaving the Chogyal alone in his palace. Sikkim is still...
China arrests 16 monks in Tibet for allegedly triggering explosions
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/6/2008; 540 words ; ...explosions in Qamdo prefecture of the Tibet autonomous region. Chogyal, Tenphel and three other monks of the Wese Monastery allegedly...transformer in Gartog township, Xinhua quoted a police, as saying. Chogyal had provided the explosives, detonators and fuses. The five...
Popular sculpting statue in Sikkim
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 9/3/2009; 528 words ; ...for teaching the art of statue making to monks at the time of Chogyal (King). However during 1950s, the school came under the...art of making this mud statue came from Bhutan. Earlier, Chogyal (King) used to call the instructors from Bhutan and they...
Problems of Sikkimese will vanish on poll day: SPCC president.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 4/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...Dzongu was a protected and restricted area of Sikkim since the Chogyal era, Mr Bhandari reiterated the rules that forbid entry of...Dzongu was a protected and restricted area of Sikkim since the Chogyal era, Mr Bhandari reiterated the rules that forbid entry of...
KINGS OF THE HIMALAYAS.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...the Indian army in the late 1970s against the wishes of the Chogyal or king whose protests were steadfastly ignored by Mrs Gandhi...became a fully-fledged member state of the Indian Union. The Chogyal's heir, his second son, has withdrawn from public life...
Travel: Sunday Travel: India Curry in the clouds Accompanied by a mobile restaurant, John Gimlette traverses a land of pink dogs and bewigged yaks to dine before the god-mountain Kanchenjunga
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...village event had been the coronation of the first Sikkimese chogyal, or king. His rocky podium still blazed with prayer flags...and went back to bed. Our hotelier was a descendant of the chogyal, a tall, gentle man with a passion for the mountains' orchids...
Yantra yoga; the Tibetan yoga of movement; A stainless mirror of jewels; a commentary on Vairocana's The union of the sun and moon yantra.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 486 words ; ...commentary on Vairocana's The union of the sun and moon yantra. Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Snow Lion Publications 2008 406 pages $34...there are many variants in different tantric circles, Master Chogyal sets out the version he has taught in the West since the early...
Sikkim's unique electoral college.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 4/30/2009; 700+ words ; ...taking lead role in propagating Buddhism in this erstwhile Chogyal kingdom. -X- Chujachen constituency in east Sikkim has the...taking lead role in propagating Buddhism in this erstwhile Chogyal kingdom. -X- Chujachen constituency in east Sikkim has the...