He was the one who finally institutionalized the bond of brotherhood between the Lhopas and the Monpa people that had been sworn at an oath-taking ceremony at Kabi Longstok in north Sikkim sometime in the 13th century.

[2] Colonel Mainwaring mentions a Lepcha community of about one hundred people in the present Gymkhana Club area and in a Bhutia settlement including a monastery on a hill somewhere around 1765.

In 1817 the invading Gurkha army was driven out by the British East India Company during the Anglo-Nepalese War and the territory was returned to the Raja of Sikkim in the hopes of gaining a trade route to Tibet in exchange.

Hence, around 1879, Sangchen Thongdrol Ling Gompa was relocated to Gying, thus clearing the space and establishing the Victoria Pleasance Park (presently Gorkha Rang Manch Bhavan) in its place.

[4] This chain of events would seem to suggest that the original monastery on top of observatory hill, later destroyed by the invading Gurkha army, was rebuilt at the Gorkha Rang Manch Bhavan location in 1818 by the lamas of Pemayangtse and finally relocated to Ging in 1879 on being insisted by the British rulers.

Some Sri Lankan sources, specially the more celebratory treatises to S. Mahinda, mention that his father was the head monk of the Bhutia Busty Monastery in Darjeeling.

464/J dated 1933 the control of the monasteries at Ging and Bhutia Busty in Darjeeling were entrusted to the Judicial Secretary of the Darber which is now carried out by The Ecclesiastical Affairs Department.

He said that the monastery had to be shifted from such a prominent location in 1879 as the British residing in the area were said to be disturbed by the blowing of conch shells and the loud sounds of the Lhabha and Gyaling in the early hours of the morning and the evening.

[7] Recently Yap Lopon Yeshey Dorjee was appointed as the head monk of Ging Gompa by the Department of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Government of Sikkim.

He has worked as a resident teacher of Lhatsun Dharma Centre, Rabongla, Sikkim, and is officially initiated by Kyabji Yangthang Rinpoche on Domang Tersar Choed.