Rikon im Tösstal is a village within the municipality of Zell in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

Then after, the area was given to the St. Gallen Abbey, and as a fief to the House of Habsburg, including a watermill in Rikon.

[1] In 1961, Switzerland was one of the first countries in the Western hemisphere, that gave new homes on a large scale to Tibetan refugees.

The monastic Tibet Institute Rikon was founded, according to the advice and under the patronage of the 14th Dalai Lama.

[2] Their story was featured in the November 1968 issue of National Geographic in an article by Laura Pilarski: "Little Tibet in Switzerland."