Bylakuppe Monastery Coorg

                            Suvarna Kshetra or Namdroling Monastery is a beautiful Buddhist monastery located in Bailakuppa, Karnataka, 5 km from Kushalnagar, 7 km from Kaveri Nisargadhama, 34 km from Madikeri and 87 km from Mysore. Bylakuppe Monastery is India's second largest Tibetan settlement after Dharamshala and is one of the most famous Coorg tourist places to visit. A group of ten people who came to India from Tibet fearing an attack by the Chinese are now a large community of ten thousand people. Bylakuppe Monastery has become a 'governing Tibetan kingdom' centred around the Golden Temple. Thousands of tourists visit their ashrams and temples every day.

                    The Golden Temple complex is huge and contains 40-foot-high gold-plated images of Guru Padmasambhava (also known as Guru Rinpoche), Buddha Shakyamuni and Amitayus. The temple tower is highly decorated. The outer walls adjacent to the door are decorated with large, colourful murals. The red doors have large gold bars and a thick rope hanging. The designs of Bylakuppe Monastery are very attractive, and on the wall are vibrant paintings of deities and demons from the Tibetan Buddhist cosmogony. Not only do young Tibetans come to the monastery in large numbers in search of illumination and knowledge, but tourists from the rest of India and outside India also draw in large numbers.