Bigu Rural Municipality

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Bigu
बिगु
Bigu is located in Nepal
Bigu
Bigu
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°50′N 86°04′E / 27.84°N 86.06°E / 27.84; 86.06Coordinates: 27°50′N 86°04′E / 27.84°N 86.06°E / 27.84; 86.06
Country   Nepal
ProvinceBagmati Province
DistrictDolakha District
Population
 (1991)
 • Total1,736
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)
Websitehttps://bigumun.gov.np/

Bigu is a former village development committee that is now a ward-7 Bigu Rural Municipality in Dolakha District in Bagmati Province of north-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1,736 people living in 361 individual households.

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Bigu Jagat Purno Monastery and a Tashi Chyme Gachhal Gumba (Nunnery Monastery under Dukpa Kaguyu),

Deudh[2]unga #Aabachukulung are point of attraction lies in Bigu . Majority of people follow Tibetan Buddhism Nyingmapa sectors.

Majority are Sherpa's and Sherpa clan in Bigu are ( Ngomba , Lama serwa, Surba or Salakh,Garja & Chawa).

Ngomba are also called Chusherwa in Rolwaling and Khumbu Regions. They were migrated from Bigu.

Other ethnicities include Thami, Magar, Newar , Chatri. Bujal.

There is Demolished Sherpa Palace or Castle (Kingdom) [3] only one of them in Bigu, Nepal.

Deudhunga in sherpa language #Aabachukulung holy place for Buddhism & Hinduism 5 hour up hill hike from Bigu nunnery monastery.

The epicenter of the May 2015 Nepal earthquake was located in Bigu.

References

  1. ^ "Nepal Census 2001", Nepal's Village Development Committees, Digital Himalaya, archived from the original on October 12, 2008, retrieved 15 November 2009.
  2. ^ "विगु गाउँपालिका ,गाउँ कार्यपालिकाको कार्यालय | " जलस्रोत, पर्यटन र जडीबुटिले समुन्रत विगु गाउँपालिका "". bigumun.gov.np. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ Palace/Castle, Sherpa. Bigu.

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