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Sonam Dorjay, a village elder from Kairy village in Rong Changthang, gives an overview of the three different kinds of wedding ceremonies (in Buddhist families) that are usually held in the Rong Chu rGyud area of Ladakh. He talks about an elaborate wedding practice that includes an 80-songs duel…
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Basgo, with its half-ruined temples and castles built on precipitous cliffs, and the quaint huts of the modern village that cluster between the sanctuaries and the sandstone rocks, makes a deep impression on the visitor; and I still cherish in my memory the picture of this ancient corner of…
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‘Then there is Tikse, wonderful Tikse, with its gompa, perhaps the most picturesque and beautiful in all Ladakh, whose hundred buildings descend in steps from the top of a great ridge of rock right down to the plain below, which bristles with a forest of chorten.’
Giotto Danielli (1933: 275–76…
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…Responsibility for cultural heritage and the management of it belongs, in the first place, to the cultural community that has generated it, and subsequently to that which cares for it.[1] (Nara Document on Authenticity, 1994)
Basgo, the capital of Ladakh in the 16th and 17th century CE saw a…
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Basgo is an agrarian village comprising around 150 households, located on the National Highway connecting Leh, the district capital of Ladakh, to Srinagar. A historical site, Basgo, was once strategically located on the trade route (with access to the Silk Road and Kashmir) at the juncture of Upper…
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