Namdroling Tibetan Golden Temple Bylakuppe near Mysore

When the spiritual Guru of Tibetans His Holiness The Dalai Lama fled Tibet with his followers, India was the only country that gave place to settle the refugees in Dharmsala in North and Bylakuppe, Kodagu district near Mysore in South. Recently they celebrated their Fifty years of exile in India and thanked the Indian Government for resettling them in an alien place and embraced them as their own.
It is never easy that a civilization can be transplanted in a totally alien climate. There are several factors like the culture, ethos, language and living style comes in the way of a successful implant. There is always a foreign body rejection possibility not to speak of Insiders’ vs. Outsiders’ scenario. Such being the case most of times distrust gives way to disharmony and finally the outsiders have to leave.
It is to the everlasting credit to India, it gave place and helped them to take roots in India by giving their children education, land for agriculture and finance them for small business.

Today Bylakuppe is a well- settled race of Tibetans among Mysoreans and Kodavas. After 50 years, their children work in hospitals, shops and offices.

What is heartening is, Tibetans have maintained their culture intact. Their Namdroling Tibetan monastery Golden Temple with statue of Lord Buddha in Bylakuppe is a major tourists Center where you will find hundreds of young Tibetans at pray.

How many countries could have done what India itself, not very well off, did 50 years ago? It is something that we can be rightly proud of.

Again India is perhaps the only Country which has helped her neighbors in times of war and has returned after the work was over and has not occupied the Land. History is full of accounts where the victor has never left the land entirely after the work was over. From both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka India completed the operation successfully and did not stay there.