Odisha’s Little Tibet – Jirang and its adjacent village Chandragiri offered the Tibetan settlers a home when China invaded Tibet in 1959. The first batch of Tibetans arrived in Chandragiri on 01 May 1963 and since then they have been staying in this picturesque mountains of Eastern Ghats. The Tibetan’s have named this place “Phuntsokling”– which means land of plenty and happiness. The major attraction here is the Padma Sambhava Monastery which was inaugurated by His Holiness The Dalai Lama in 2010.
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