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Kabi Longtsok is a Lepcha term.
Kabi is Blood, Long is Stone and Tsok is errection .
History
THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE INDIGENOUS TRIBES BHUTIA-LEPCHA HAD SWORN AS BLOOD BROTHERHOOD TO LIVE HARMONIOUSLY IN THIS HIDDEN VALLEY, AS PER ORAL TRADITION, IT IS SAID THAT IN 13th CENTURY A.D. KHYE BUMSA.THE GREAT ANCESTOR OF THE BHUTIAS AND THEKONG TEK. THE LEPCHA CHIEF PRIEST ALONG WITH THEIR RETINUE ASSEMBLED AT THIS SPOT TO SWEAR IN AS BLOOD BROTHERHOOD. THEY INVOKED ALL THE POWERFUL SPIRITS OF THIS VALLEY AS WITNESS AND SWORN TO REMAIN AS BLOOD BROTHERS BETWEEN TWO RACES UNTIL THE RIVER RANGIT CEASED TO FLOW & MOUNT KHANG - CHEN-DZO-NGA REMAINS. THEY PUT THEIR FEET IN A VESSEL FILLED WITH ANIMAL BLOOD AND ERECTED A STONE AS MARK OF THIS EVENT.
THIS PLACE OF WORSHIP IS PROTECTED UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM NOTIFICATION NO.701/HOME/2001 DATED 20.9.2001 AND THE PROVISION OF THE PLACE OF WORSHIP (SPECIAL PPOVISION) ACT. 1991 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
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