HISTORY OF SIKHIM AND ITS EtTLEES. 13 



Fort Dumsong and retained what is now the Kalimpong district and up 

 to Tegonla. Thus Sikhim lost the bulk of the Mou-loong-kha-bzi. 



His long sojourn amongst the learned priests at Lhassa had 

 exercised a great influence towards monasticism in the Raja, and he 

 accordingly on his return devoted himself to the cause of religion 

 and learning. Aided and encouraged by I.ama Jig-med-Paw, he founded 

 the present monastery of Pemiongchi for Tasongs, and richly endow- 

 ed it : the establishment was to consist of 108 monks, and the Raja 

 himself shaved his head and became one of the first number: he also 

 appointed 108 tGar-na-pa or lay ofHcials to serve with the lamas and 

 assist them in secular business. Among other works the Raja wrote 

 a book on monastic discipline, called IChags-Yig, composed a religious 

 dance, Rong-Chham, in honour of Takpoo or warlike demons, and 

 designed an alphabet for the use of his Lepcha subjects. 



The Raja's half-sister, Pende Amo, had meanwhile formed a liaison 

 with mNgah-bDag-Rin-Chhen-mGon, who was the third lama in 

 succession to Lama mNgah-bDag-Sems-dPah-Chhen-po, referred to in 

 pages 10 and 123, and married him. The lama by his vows of the 

 Rabjungpa sect, which were very strict, ought to have maintained 

 the strictest celibacy, and in marrying Pende Amo had committed a 

 mortal sin. In hopes of mitigating his spiritual punishment, and as 

 an expiatory offering for her share of the offence, Pende Amo built the 

 Chos-rGyel Lha Khang monastery at Tashidiug and another at Senan : 

 this was about the year 1716. 



The tension between brother and sister still continued after 

 Chador's return, and culminated in the latter causing her brother to 

 be murdered* about the year 1717. Immediately afterwards Pende 

 herself was strangled by orders of the Durbar, and her corpse burnt 

 at a place called Pende Laptse near Niamtchi. Owing to her wicked- 

 ness and power for evil, she has been looked upon as the incarnation 

 of gZah-dMar-rGyan, an evil spirit, the wife of gZah-bDud-Ra-hu-la, 

 who is credited also with causing the solar eclipses. It is not known 

 whether she left any children. 



For his services in the Dalai Lama's houseliold, Raja Chador was 

 given the fiefs of Piahte-gong (Pedi-gong) near Lake Yam-dok-tsho 

 and of hRe-Rin-Chhen-rTse-Jong near Shigatzi in Tibet. These 

 were enjoyed by his successors up to the beginning of the present 

 century, when they were resumed by the Tibetan Government in 

 Cho-phoe Namgy d's minority, in the confusion resulting from the 

 Nepalese-Tibetan war. 



* The Raja being unwell had gone to take a course of the hot springs at Kaklong, and 

 while in the bath his physician, at the instigation of Pende Amo, treacherously opened his reins, 

 and he bled to death. 



