KHAMPAT SINGZABUANG (Khampat Banyan Tree)

THIS is the famous Banyan Tree of the ZO Peoples, located in Khampat village, about 2-hours’ drive from Tamu, Myanmar (bordering Moreh, Chandel dist, India).

Khampat is a ZO village which comprises Chin, Kuki, Mizo, Falam, Haka, etc. The highway from Tamu to Kalaymo passes through this village. The tree is located near one Burmese village. 

From Khampat it is about half kilometre away!

Prophecy: In the olden days, there sat a PRIEST under this tree who proclaimed: “The branches of the banyan tree will grow longer and longer, which will reaches the ground one day. When the branches touch the ground, the ZO Peoples will unify and occupy reign their ancestral land”.

“Some Burmese chopped off the branches before touching the ground. Few years ago, lightning splits the tree into two,” said my friend who accompanied me.

Today the ZO People i.e. Chin, Kuki, Mizo, Zomi, Kachin, etc settles in Bangladesh (Chittagong Hill Tracts), Myanmar and India.

*Khampat Buangpui (in Mizo), Khampat Buongthing (in Kuki) and Khampat Buangkung/Singzabuang (in ZO).

I have visited this Khampat Buangkung on 19 Feb 2015.

~ Bruce K. Thangkhal, Joint Editor, Zogam Today

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