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A museum and library dedicated to Tibetan culture, language and history. The foundation stone was laid by the 14th Dalai Lama in 1957 and the institute was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1958. Photography is not permitted inside the museum.
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology (NIT) is a Tibet museum in Gangtok, Sikkim, India, named after the 11th Chogyal of Sikkim, Sir Tashi Namgyal. The institute employs researchers and one of its new research programs is a project which seeks to document the social history of Sikkim's approximated 60 monasteries and record this on a computer. Another project seeks to digitize and document old and rare photographs of Sikkim for knowledge distribution. Khempo Dhazar served as head of the Sheda, a Nyingma college attached to the Institute, for six years.
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