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Bylakuppe

Field	Value
name	Bylakuppe
nickname	Mini Tibet
settlement_type	Town
image_skyline	Bylakuppe. Mysore (5).jpg
image_caption	Three Pillars
pushpin_label_position	right
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	India
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Karnataka
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Mysore district
parts_type	Taluk
parts	Piriyapatna
established_title
established_date	1959
named_for	Tourism pleasant climate
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2	10
elevation_m	852
population_total	70,000 (including Tibetans)
population_as_of	2011
population_density_km2	auto
population_footnotes	(estimated)2021
demographics_type1	Languages
demographics1_title1	Official
demographics1_info1	Kannada
timezone1	IST
utc_offset1	+5:30
postal_code_type	PIN
postal_code	571104
area_code_type	Telephone code
area_code	+91 8223
registration_plate	KA-45
blank1_name_sec1	Lok Sabha constituency
blank1_info_sec1	Mysore-Kodagu
blank1_name_sec2	Climate
blank1_info_sec2	Tropical wet and dry (Köppen)

Bylakuppe is a region in Karnataka which is home to the Indian town Bylakuppe and several Tibetan settlements, established by Lugsum Samdupling (in 1961) and Dickyi Larsoe (in 1969). Bylakuppe is the largest Tibetan settlement in the world outside Tibet. It is located in Periyapatna Taluk of Mysore district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

There are a number of monasteries and temples representing the major Tibetan Buddhist traditions, including the large educational monastic institution Sera Monastery, the smaller Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (both in the Gelug tradition) and Namdroling Monastery (in the Nyingma tradition). It also has Buddhist universities for advanced Buddhist practices.

History

In 1960, the Government of Mysore (as Karnataka was called at that time) allotted nearly 3000 acre of land at Bylakuppe in Mysore district in Karnataka and the first ever Tibetan exile settlement, Lugsung Samdupling was established in 1961.

Population

The town is mainly inhabited by Tibetans who, according to a demographic survey carried out by the Central Tibetan Administration's Planning Commission in 1998, accounted for 50,727 individuals at that time.

Image gallery

File:Bylakuppe, Mysore, India.jpg|Auto Stand File:Tibetan Monastery nr Hunsur.jpg|Hunsur Monastery File:Bylakuppe new hostel.jpg|Tashi Lhunpo Hostel File:Namrodoling Monastery Bylakuppe2.jpg|Namdroling Monastery File:Budha kushalnagar.jpg|Inside the Namdroling Monastery File:Tsogyal Shedrup Dargyeling nuns.JPG|Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery File:BylakuppeMon.jpg|Sera Monastery File:Bylakuppe. Old Hostels.jpg|Tashi Lhunpo File:Bylakuppe. Student Hostels.jpg|Tashi Lhunpo Hostel

Climate

The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as tropical wet and dry (Aw).

References

"Encouraged By Rising Support From Intellectuals in China: His Holiness the Dalai Lama - Central Tibetan Administration". Tibet.net.
"Climate: Bylakuppe - Climate graph, Temperature graph, Climate table". Climate-Data.org.

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