Fresh Religious Committee instituted for installation of Chenrezig statue at Sangacholing

GANGTOK, 20 June: The State Government has constituted a fresh Religious Committee for the installation of a statue of Chenrezig at Sangacholing Monastery in West Sikkim.
Superseding the notification 01 August 2009, the State government has reconstituted the Religious Committee and assigned it the task to look into the issues relating to providing the design and ‘zung’ installation of the statue as well as arranging rituals required for each step of the project.
The Religious Committee will be headed by the Sangha MLA as Chairman, have the Joint Director, Ecclesiastical Affairs Department as Member Secretary.
The other members of the committee are: Secretary, Ecclesiastical Affairs Department; Chief Engineer, Building and Housing Department; Nangzey Dorjee, former Secretary, Ecclesiastical Affairs Deptt; Sherap Tenzing Lama (Ku and Zung expert from Chorten Gonpa); a representative of the Duchi of Sangag Choling Gonpa, West Sikkim; a representative of Duchi of Pemayangtse Gonpa, West Sikkim.