Buddhist Monasteries in Darjeeling

After the Chinese took over Tibet, many Tibetans migrated to India. Darjeeling became the base for many of them - others went to live in McLeod-Ganj / Dharamsala, the home of the Dalai Lama. Monasticism has always been an important part of Tibetan Buddhism, and there are now many monasteries, and some convents ,some of them are :
Sakya Monastery (Ghoom)
Located 8 km from Darjeeling at a place called Ghoom Station, the age old Guru Shakya Monastery captures the hearts of all the visitors.The Guru Sakya Monastery is a historic and significant monastery of the Shakya Order. The original monastery was built sometime in 1915 and has supported the monastic community over the years.The main prayer hall can hold about 60 monks.
Dali Monastery
DRUK THUBTEN SANGAG CHOLING MONASTERY: The eleventh Gyalwang Drukchen Tenzin Khenrab Gelek Wangpo passed away in 1960 leaving His Ennence Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche as regent of the Drukpa Kargyud Lineage.Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche's compassion, love and his fame as a concerned instructor disseminate. He started building Druk Thubten Sangag Choling Monastery at Dali, Darjeeling in 1971. Kyabje Thuksey Rinpoche stressed that the sole aim of this monastery was to uphold the valued Dharma, the Tibetan culture and its customs.The monastery was inaugurated by His sanctity The Dalai Lama in 1993, where he gave three days of spiritual commandments.It is the only monastery in the east of darjeeling to have devotees from Himalayan region. At present there are over 200 monks. Prayer sessions are one in the morning from 05.30 to 6.30  and the second is in the evening from 17.00 to 18.30.
Bhutia Busty Monastery
The Bhutia Busty monastery is is located just 1.5 km from Chowrasta. With a retentive and strinking history, the monastery belongs to the Red Sect of Buddhist Lamas.The origin of name Darjeeling is linked to this monastery 'Dorjee', means thunderbolt in Tibetan and 'Ling' means resting place, thus 'Place' of the 'Thunderbolt' which was the name of the Monastery, originally located on the Observatory Hill before it was sacked by the Nepalese in the 19th century and rebuilt on the present site. The ill-fated Monastery was destroyed by the 1934 earthquake and owes its present world to the openhandedness of the Late Rajah of Sikkim.
Yiga-Choling Buddhist Monastery (Ghoom)
Eight kilometers from Darjeeling at an elevation of 8k ft, the last lap of the journey before the Batasia loop, is the Yiga-Choling monastery. The monastery belongs to the Yellow Sect of Buddhists who worship a 15 ft statue of the "Coming Buddha" (Maitreya Buddha).Built in 1875 by Lama Sherab Gyantso, it is the largest of the three monasteries and contains images of Buddha's disciples "Chenrezi" and "Tsongkapa". Among the Buddhist texts available there are the Kangyur, the Buddhist Tibetan Gospel running over 108 books.
Makdhog Monastery
At a distance of three kms from Chowrasta, in the hamlet of Aloobari on the eastern slope of Jalaphar Hill, stands the Yolmowa Buddhist Makdhog Monastry. The monastry was built by Sri Sangay Lama, a highly feared religious head of the Yolmowas- a small  group coming from north-east of Nepal and later settled in Darjeeling. The Monastery was, therefore, named Makdhog or 'warding off war' adverting the World War that was about to start. Yolmowa Buddhist Monastery, the sanctum sanctum of the Yolmowa community, that has helped preserve their distinct social identity.