Sonam Angchok, Rigzin Chodon and Monisha Ahmed
The carvers talk about the origin of this tradition and explain how this important cultural heritage is kept alive through the yearly occasion. The youth of the village also teach stone carving to interested people during winter in the main bazaar of Khalatse. This community space is also an active…
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Rigzin Chodon
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Phuntsog Dorjay
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Tashi Morup
Ladakh is an open book of pre-Tibetan Buddhist art, mainly in the form of rock sculptures. Innumerable images of Buddhist deities and icons of varying sizes, intricately carved and engraved on rocks, are scattered all over the region. Most of them are found in the same spot and natural ambience of…
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Tashi Ldawa Thasngspa
An appreciation of Ladakh’s history would be incomplete without an understanding of its relationship with the areas and regions in its immediate neighbourhood—Kashmir and Baltistan to the west, the vast expanses of Sinkiang/Xinjiang and Western Tibet to its north and east, and the Himalayan range…
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Monisha Ahmed
Throughout Ladakh, rock carvings are visible along pilgrimage and trade routes, and at wayside shrines. Some of these date to the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods, others are more recent carvings. Their delineations include simple figures, animals and outlines of structures to more intricate…
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Monisha Ahmed, Sonam Angchok, Rigzin Chodon
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Rinchen Dolma
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Monisha Ahmed
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Monisha Ahmed
Beyond the appeal of their lustrous surfaces and glowing colours, pieces of Himalayan jewellery have the power to reveal intimate facets of the lives of those who owned and wore them. Like a tiny mirror reflecting a society often distant in time and space, a single piece can reveal its wearer’s sex…
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