Place · Theravada Buddhist monastery · India
Namsai Golden Pagoda
Also known as Kongmu Kham
The Kongmu Kham Golden Pagoda at Namsai, consecrated in 2010, is the principal monastery of the Tai Khamti Theravada Buddhist community of eastern Arunachal Pradesh — a people who migrated from the Shan state of upper Burma in the 18th century with the Khamti chief Chao Pha Pang Fai and whose script, calendar and monastery architecture remain Shan-Burmese. The twenty-metre gilded stupa with eight subsidiary shrines was built on 20 acres of donated Khamti land under the senior Namsai monk Chow Nandak Mahathera. The site is the easternmost Theravada monastery in India and the training centre for Khamti and Singpho monks who still travel to Mandalay and Chiang Mai for higher ordination.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 27.683, 95.867
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- Site adjacencyItanagar
The Namsai Golden Pagoda at Kongmu Kham and Itanagar, the state capital of Arunachal Pradesh, are the Theravada and secular civic anchors of eastern Arunachal — Namsai in the Tai Khamti Shan-Burmese Buddhist country, Itanagar the modern capital developed from 1972 on the site of the 11th-century Mayapur fort of the Jiti chief. The two sit two hundred and forty kilometres apart on National Highway 15 (the East-West Industrial Corridor) and together frame the pan-Buddhist, pan-indigenous and administrative landscape of modern Arunachal.
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