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Alexandra David Neel was a French Lady who visited Sikkim in the
year 1912. During the next 2 years she met with the Gomchen of
Lachen ( Rimpoche) and learnt the art of telepathy from him. She
also attempted “tumo” breathing, the Tibetan art of generating
body heat to keep warm in freezing conditions.
We have prepared an itinerary in which we take you to the very
Cave where Alexandra David Neel went in Meditation for months.
We can even have an audience with the present Gomchen of Lachen
( Rimpoche), if he is stationed at Lachen.
ABOUT ALEXANDRA DAVID NEEL
Alexandra David Neel was born in Paris on 24th October 1868. In
the year 1891 she traveled for more than a year in Ceylon and
India. In 1911 she undertook her second voyage to India and
arrived in Pondicherry. By 1912 she was living in Calcutta.
 When she arrived in the small Himalayan state of Sikkim in 1912,
she immediately felt at home, and increased her knowledge of
Buddhism by visiting all important monasteries there and she
also met the Prince Sidkeong of Sikkim. She made great progress
in Tibetan language and met the Gomchen (great hermit) of Lachen
monastery in North Sikkim. He was an impressive figure wearing
the five sided crown, rosary necklace of 108 pieces of human
skull, an apron carved of human bone, and a magic dagger. During
the next 2 years she met with the Gomchen of Lachen and learnt
the art of telepathy from him. She also attempted “tumo”
breathing, the Tibetan art of generating body heat to keep warm
in freezing conditions.
Two years later she met a young man called Aphur Yongden, and a
friendship which was to last a life time, he eventually became
her adopted son. They both moved to cave hermitage in Northern
Sikkim, close to the border with Tibet, which it was forbidden
to cross into. Tibet was rarely visited by Europeans at that
time, let alone European woman. Nevertheless Alexandra and
Yongden did so twice, the result being expulsion from Sikkim in
1916.
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ALEXANDRA DAVID & HER ENLIGHTENMENT IN SIKKIM
07 Days 06 Nights |
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Day 01 |
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Bagdogra-Gangtok |
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Day 02 |
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Gangtok- Lachen (North
Sikkim) |
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Day 03 |
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Lachen-Diuthang. Overnight
at hut /Tent |
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Day 04 |
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Diuthang-Cave- Overnight
Meditation Programme in the Cave |
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Day 05 |
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Cave to Phalung. Night halt
at Phalung |
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Day 06 |
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Phalung-Thangu-Lachen |
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Day 07 |
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Lachen – Gangtok |
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