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McLeod Ganj

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McLeod Ganj (also spelt McLeodGanj or McLeodganj) is a suburb of Dharamshala in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. [1]

60 relations: Artisan peanut butter, Avalokiteśvara, British Raj, Cantonment, Central Tibetan Administration, Communist Party of China, Dal Lake (Himachal Pradesh), Dalai Lama, Dharamshala, Dharamshala (type of building), Dharamshala International Film Festival, Dhauladhar, Donald Friell McLeod, Foot (unit), Gautama Buddha, Governor-General of India, Gurkha, Gyuto Order, Hill station, Himachal Pradesh, Hindi, India, Indian Standard Time, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Kangra Airport, Kangra district, Kangra Valley Railway, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, Lhasa, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, List of districts in India, Metre, Naddi, Namgyal Monastery, Nechung, Norbulingka Institute, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Padmasambhava, Palampur, Postal Index Number, Punjab Province (British India), Rajneesh, Second Anglo-Sikh War, Sidhbari, St. John in the Wilderness Church, States and union territories of India, Thangka, The Imperial Gazetteer of India, The New York Times, Tibet, ..., Tibetan Children's Villages, Tibetan diaspora, Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Time (magazine), Triund, University of California Press, 1 Gorkha Rifles, 14th Dalai Lama, 1905 Kangra earthquake, 1959 Tibetan uprising. Expand index (10 more) »

Artisan peanut butter

Artisan peanut butter usually refers to peanut butter which is preservative and additive-free and handmade in a cottage industry-style setup.

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Avalokiteśvara

Avalokiteśvara (अवलोकितेश्वर) is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Cantonment

A cantonment is a military or police quarters.

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Central Tibetan Administration

The Central Tibetan Administration, also known as CTA (literally Exile Tibetan People's Organisation) is an organisation based in India.

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Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

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Dal Lake (Himachal Pradesh)

Dal Lake is a small mid-altitude lake (1,775 m above sea level) near the village of Tota Rani in Kangra district (Himachal Pradesh) in northern India.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama (Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Tā la'i bla ma) is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people.

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Dharamshala

Dharamshala (also spelled Dharamsala) is the second winter capital of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh and a municipal corporation in Kangra district.

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Dharamshala (type of building)

A dharamshala, also written as dharmashala (dharmaśālā) is a Hindu religious resthouse.

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Dharamshala International Film Festival

The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) is an international film festival showcasing the best of recent Indian and world cinema, including fiction, documentaries and shorts.

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Dhauladhar

The Dhauladhar range (lit. The White Range) is part of a lesser Himalayan chain of mountains.

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Donald Friell McLeod

Sir Donald Friell McLeod (6 May 1810 – 28 November 1872) was a Lieutenant Governor of British Punjab (in office: 10 January 1865 – 1 June 1870).

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Foot (unit)

The foot (feet; abbreviation: ft; symbol: ′, the prime symbol) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Gurkha

The Gurkhas or Gorkhas with endonym Gorkhali (गोरखाली) are the soldiers of Nepalese nationality and ethnic Indian Gorkhas recruited in the British Army, Nepalese Army, Indian Army, Gurkha Contingent Singapore, Gurkha Reserve Unit Brunei, UN Peace Keeping force, and war zones around the world.

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Gyuto Order

Gyuto (also spelled Gyütö or Gyüto) Tantric University is one of the great monastic institutions of the Gelug Order.

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Hill station

A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh (literally "snow-laden province") is a Indian state located in North India.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time observed throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.

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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, (20 July 1811 – 20 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842–1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847–1854), and Viceroy of India (1862–1863). In 1857, he was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade. In 1860, during the Second Opium War in China, in the retaliation of the torture and execution of almost twenty European and Indian prisoners, he ordered the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, an architectural wonder with immeasurable collections of artworks and historic antiques, inflicting invaluable loss of cultural heritage. Subsequently, he submitted the Qing Dynasty to the unequal treaty of the Convention of Peking, adding Kowloon Peninsula to the British crown colony of Hong Kong.

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Kangra Airport

The Kangra Airport, officially known as Kangra Airport, Gaggal, is an airport located in Gaggal near Kangra in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, 12 km from Dharamshala and 8 kilometres from Kangra.

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Kangra district

Kangra is the most populous district of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Kangra Valley Railway

| The Kangra Valley Railway lies in the sub-Himalayan region of Kangra Valley and covers a distance of from Pathankot, Punjab to Jogindernagar in Himachal Pradesh, India.

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Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

Kangra is a city and a municipal council in Kangra district now in Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Lhasa

Lhasa is a city and administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.

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Library of Tibetan Works and Archives

The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) is a Tibetan library in Dharamshala, India.

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List of districts in India

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Metre

The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit mètre, from the Greek noun μέτρον, "measure") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI).

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Naddi

Naddi is a village in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Namgyal Monastery

Namgyal Monastery (also often referred to as "Dalai Lama's Temple") is currently located in Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala, India.

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Nechung

Nechung Monastery, Nechung Gompa or Nechung Chok ("the small dwelling"), is the seat of the State Oracle of Tibet.

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Norbulingka Institute

Norbulingka Institute, founded in 1988 by Kelsang and Kim Yeshi at Sidhpur, near Dharamshala, India, is dedicated to the preservation of the Tibetan culture in its literary and artistic forms.

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Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Ogyen Trinley Dorje (born June 26, 1985), also written Urgyen Trinley Dorje (is a claimant to the title of 17th Karmapa Lama. The Karmapa is head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava (lit. "Lotus-Born"), also known as Guru Rinpoche, was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist master.

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Palampur

Palampur is a hill station and a municipal council in the Kangra Valley in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Postal Index Number

A Postal Index Number or PIN or PIN code is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration.

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Punjab Province (British India)

Punjab, also spelled Panjab, was a province of British India.

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Rajneesh

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho, was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement.

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Second Anglo-Sikh War

The Second Anglo-Sikh War was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company that took place in 1848 and 1849.

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Sidhbari

Sidhbari is a suburb of Dharamshala town, situated in the foothills of Dhauladhar mountains, in Kangra district of the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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St. John in the Wilderness Church

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 29 states and 7 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Thangka

A thangka, variously spelt as thangka, tangka, thanka, or tanka (Nepal Bhasa: पौभा), is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala.

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The Imperial Gazetteer of India

The Imperial Gazetteer of India was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibetan Children's Villages

Tibetan Children's Villages or TCV is an integrated community in exile for the care and education of orphans, destitutes and refugee children from Tibet.

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Tibetan diaspora

The Tibetan diaspora is a term used to refer to the communities of Tibetan people living outside their original homeland of Tibet.

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Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts

The Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA) was founded by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama on reaching McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, India in exile from Tibet in August 1959.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Triund

Triund (Hindi; त्रिउंड) is a small hill in the Kangra district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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1 Gorkha Rifles

1 Gorkha Rifles is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army composed of Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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1905 Kangra earthquake

The 1905 Kangra earthquake occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra region of the Punjab Province (modern day Himachal Pradesh) in India on 4 April 1905.

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1959 Tibetan uprising

The 1959 Tibetan uprising or the 1959 Tibetan rebellion began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Area, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLeod_Ganj

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