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Namphake Buddhist Monastery & Village

 Namphake is a Buddhist village inhabited by Tai Phake community. Now, Tai is a large linguistic group that has many branches. They originated somewhere in the region covering Southern China and SE Asia and migrated to nearby areas including Myanmar and NE India. The most famous of them is of course the Thai people of Thailand while in Assam the Ahoms are the most populous and well-known Tai group as they ruled the region for a long time.
                                    However, there are many other small but distinct groups that exist and there are five different Tai groups that arrived here from Myanmar by crossing the Patkais. These include the aforementioned Ahoms, Tai Phake, Tai Aiton, Tai Turung, Tai Khamti, and Tai Khamyang. Not all of them arrived at the same time but they came here gradually, during different waves over a period of 5-6 centuries.