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Orissa Tibetan settlement becomes tourist destination

Sahara Samay NCR

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, holds a traditional Tibetan cap of Namkha Drimed Rinpoche, the main priest of the Rigon Thupten Mindrolling monastery during its inauguration in Jirang about 300 kilometres (188 miles) from Bhubneswar, India, 12 January 2010.AP/Anupam Nath/India

The Orissa government today declared as a tourist destination the Tibetan settlement at Jiranga area in Gajapati district, where Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama inaugurated a monastery.

“We have declared Jiranga along with Khasada, a nearby village where a natural waterfall is located, as tourist spots. The notification in this regard had been handed over to the Dalai Lama,” state tourism and culture minister Debi Prasad Mishra told reporters here.

The Dalai Lama today consecrated the 70-foot-high and five-storey Rigon Thupten Mindrolling monastery, spread over about 10 acres of land, in the presence of about 2,500 guests from across the world.

The minister said the government would develop infrastructure facilities like road connectivity from Taptapani, another tourist destination about 50 km from here in Ganjam district, to Jiranga for easy approach to the Tibetan settlement. Taptapani is famous for its hot spring.

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