Marlene Erschbamer, 2010
Chungtang Monastery is a Nyingma institution in northern Sikkim. It was first established as a Barawa Kagyu monastery by Konchok Gyeltsen in the seventeenth century and was converted in 1788, apparently after the local people rebelled against the head lama. It was rebuilt in 1968, using wood from the original monastery, and a statue of Konchok Gyeltsen was placed on the main altar in the 1980s. A small stūpa above the monastery honors its original founder.