Brief history of Khomo village and its historical background.

Khomo Village.

Khomo aka Khoma Gewog is located at about 11.6 km away from Lhuentse Dzongkhag Administration and the Gewog is popularly known for producing Kishuthara. Gewog consists of Five Chiwogs with 15 villages and it covers an area of 71sq km of Lhuentse Dzongkhag. People speaks Dzalakha as local dialect which is very unique language as compare to other Gewogs. Paddy is the main cereal crop for the people of Khomo/ Khoma Gewog. Maize and barley are also grown but in limited scale. People do agriculture farming too. However, weaving Kishuthara is the main source of income for the people of Khomo/Khoma gewog.

Historical Meaning of Khomo.

While Guru Rinpoche was meditating at the cave of Sangwa Dhadru aka Sangye Lodru, there is a girl called Moenmo Tashi Khewdren (Tashi Chedren) as a cow girl at Place called Thembrang (near Sangye Lodru). She is a daughter of King Hamra the local leader of Khomo Valley. One day she saw Guru Rinpoche meditating in the cave of current Sangye Lodru and she offered a bottle of Milk to guru Rinpoche. Hence, Guru Rinpoche said “Ngala Khowai mo che du” meaning “There is a girl that I need”. Thereafter the village was known as Khomo and believes to have of Khandom (Dakinis) from this village but it was unknown to the public. People of that gewog still called as Khomo but it was famously known as Khama in other region and even it was started to write as khoma in latter part.

History of Sangye Lodru aka Sangwa Dhadru.

Sangwa Dhadru.

Sangye Lodru aka Sangwa Dhadru is believed to be one of the sacred place visited by Guru Rinpoche and people believes that it is end point of Singye Dzong where the pilgrimage is incomplete if they don’t visit Sangye Lodru from their return journey from Singye Dzong. The place was called as Sangye lodru as well as Sangye Dhadru which carries two different meaning as follows. The name sangye meaning Buddha refers to Guru Rinpoche, Lodru means six years of retreat at that place. However from other side it was known as Sangwa Dhadru meaning Sangwa means Secrete, Dhadru means Six month where Guru Rinpoche stayed there for six month to subdue Tsho dag and appointed as local Deity of Khoma.