Bigu Rural Municipality

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.

Bigu
बिगु
Gaupalika
Bigu
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 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/

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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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