Zang Dhok Palri Phodang

Zangdok Palri Monastery or Zang Dhok Palri Phodang is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma school, located at Kalimpong in West Bengal, India.

It represents Guru Rinpoche's palace, the Glorious Copper Colored Mountain.

[1][2] In 1975, Dudjom Rinpoche then moved from Kalimpong to Nepal,[3] and the monastery was additionally consecrated in 1976 by the visiting Dalai Lama.

A series of important Nyingma school lineage transmissions given by Dudjom Rinpoche to the Tibetan exile communities were first held at Zangdok Palri in 1961.

[1][4] The monastery houses many rare Tibetan Buddhist and specifically Nyingma lineage texts that were brought by Dudjom Rinpoche into Sikkim, India, then moved to Kalimpong[1] after the invasion of Tibet by China in 1949/1950.