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	Muslim-Buddhist Clashes In Ladakh: The Politics Behind The 'Religious' Conflict By Yoginder Sikand
		Ladakhi rulers invited a number of Kashmiri Muslims to join their court as scribes to conduct official correspondence in Persian with the Mughal governors of Kashmir and also to help run the royal mint.
		Another Ladakhi Raja, Nima Namgyal, was married to a Muslim princess, Zizi Khatun, who is said to have exercised a major role in running the affairs of the kingdom.
		Likewise, Hurchu Khan, the Shi'a ruler of a principality in Kargil, married a Ladakhi Buddhist princess.
	www.countercurrents.org /comm-sikand130206.htm (1772 words)

	Ladakhi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ladakhi language is the predominant language in the Ladakh region of the Jammu and Kashmir state of India.
		Ladakhi has several dialects, Ladakhi proper (also called after the capital of Ladakh, Leh, where it is spoken); Shamma, spoken to the northwest of Leh; Stopta, spoken to the south east in the Indus alley; Nubra, spoken in the north.
		Ladakhi is romanised in a similar way to Hindi, 'th' denoting an aspirated 't,' for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ladakhi_language (262 words)

	In the cockpit of the world, an ancient people embrace the present while prizing their tradition
		They are about the importance of education, of saving the Ladakhi's sense of community and unique traditions, of the need to raise their standard of living and to meet environmental and social challenges.
		Ladakhis came to believe that they were backward, their rich culture an embarrassing anachronism, as heavy as the turquoise-studded heirloom headdresses worn by traditional brides.
		Ladakhis have also begun to gain political power, with the ultimate goal of forming their own state within India.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/203898_focus19.html (1750 words)

	Cycling in the Indian Himalaya
		They showed off weaving skills, sold Ladakhi food (their apricot jam is yummy), sang songs, and put on some dances.
		The scenery, Ladakhi villages, and Buddhist temples and monasteries are likely to be the highlights.
		Ladakhi women, dressed in their finest jewelry and turquoise-studded bonnets, lined the path and held offerings of flowers.
	www.arizonahandbook.com /India_H1.htm (1164 words)

	Peaceful Societies
		Ordinary Ladakhis, he says, are taken by the Wheel of Life images displayed near the doors of the monasteries, which symbolize their Tibetan Buddhist view of existence.
		Ladakhis focus very little on the self, in contrast to Americans who emphasize their extreme individualism.
		Thoughtful readers should be inspired to go beyond Gielen’s examination of Ladakhi values, and the contrasting ones in America that he so effectively describes, to reflect on personal beliefs and their connections with peacefulness.
	www.peacefulsocieties.org /NAR/050428lada.html (902 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Issues \| Untouchability - an unethical practice by Ladakhi Buddhists
		The truth is that there are certain practices in Ladakhi culture which are neither culturally appropriate and religiously relevant nor legally legitimate.
		The peace loving and hospitable Ladakhi people need to look within their own culture in order to make the culture and system more equitable and humane.
		Ladakhis are more conscious about caste when it comes for marriages, social and religious rituals even to some extent it influences the political decision of the people.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=8,2472,0,0,1,0 (1768 words)

	The Case of Cultural Destruction - Rethinking Globalization - Rethinking Schools Online
		You also ruined Ladakhi indigenous education by forcing young people to attend schools that taught them to feel inferior to "developed" cultures that had dams and industry and huge plantations and big cities and cars and.
		We can blame all kinds of outside influences, but ultimately it was the Ladakhis yourselves who went to work in the city, who sent your kids to schools, who sold stuff to tourists, and who began to pollute your communities and lose your old ways of life.
		Think about what the movies have taught the Ladakhi teenagers: that their old ways are bad, blowing up stuff is good, being macho and sexist is good, being an "individual" is good, etc. As Helena Norberg-Hodge said, teenagers are the weak link.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /publication/rg/RGLak.shtml (1435 words)

	Ladakh Summary
		Ladakh (Ladakhi:ལདཁ, Tibetan:ལ་དྭགས་, Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ; IPA: [ləd̪.d̪ɑːx]), a word which means "land of high passes", is a region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir of Northern India sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south.
		The Snow Leopard (Ladakhi: Shan) once ranged throughout the Himalayas, Tibet, and as far as the Sayan mountains on the Mongolian-Russian border; and in elevation from 1800 m to 5400 m.
		The language of Ladakh is Ladakhi, a Tibetan dialect that is different enough from Tibetan that Ladakhis and Tibetans often speak Hindi or English when they need to communicate.
	www.bookrags.com /Ladakh (5473 words)

	Desert winds of change: High-Altitude Ladakh’s responses to a global challenge
		Traditionally, most Ladakhis are self-sufficient farmers living in small villages scattered in the river valleys, where water coming from the melted snow and ice of the mountains can be accessed through the elaborate channels of an irrigation system the Ladakhis have maintained for generations (Plate 3).
		Ladakhis to a great extent depend on animal husbandry of sheep, goats, donkeys, horses, cows, yaks and dzos for their supply of dung used as fuel, transport, labour, wool, and milk.
		This would give the Ladakhis a great deal of control of how their heritage is represented and provide an opportunity, especially among young Ladakhis, to shape a stronger community identity and regain pride in local cultural traditions.
	museumsnett.no /icme/icme2003/kredler.html (5367 words)

	Helena Norberg-Hodge - Ladakh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		What the Ladakhis saw was this way of life in which it looked like we never work, because to people in countries where this development hasn't taken place, our sitting around looks like just having a good time.
		The Ladakhis have lived in this context and have not grown up facing the choice of whether to remain in that sort of context or whether to do something else, and their understanding of their own way of life has been more intuitive than analytically conscious.
		I think much that I've said about the influences that are propelling the Ladakhis in a certain direction and their interest in "modernness" is very relevant in other cultures in the third world.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC17/NHodge.htm (4259 words)

	Lessons from Ladakh, the "Little Tibet"
		Sometimes it is necessary to cover your cup or even veer away from your hostess as she approaches wielding a warm teapot and a plate stacked with homemade bread.
		The goba of a Ladakhi village had probably held most of his people’s children in his arms, and would attend some of their parents’ funerals.
		Traditional Ladakhi society had the advantage of being an intimate, closed system, in which it was obvious that the Buddhist philosophy of interdependence was not only valuable, but furthermore, true.
	www.worldandi.com /subscribers/feature_detail.asp?num=25039 (3692 words)

	Democracy in Ladakh: Marginalized Women by Stanzin Dawa
		Democracy is not a spectator sport, Ladakhi women deserved to be an active contributor in the local political democracy.
		Ladakhi women's plays a significant traditional role as care givers to children, family, domestic and social affairs.
		As large number of Ladakhi men are serving in the army, engaged in tourism, absorbed with monastery affairs as monk.
	www.boloji.com /opinion/0197.htm (1753 words)

	International Society for Ecology and Culture
		We sponsor Ladakhi community leaders to come to the West on 'reality tours', which serve to balance the glamorised image of modern, urban life that is spread through advertising, television and tourism.
		Having no way of knowing the degree to which Ladakhis have traditionally been self-reliant, they are often horrified to hear of daily wages as low as five dollars, or of an absence of electricity.
		Recognizing that tourism is a powerful agent of change, we make great efforts to reach out to visitors to invite them to participate in solutions at every level: from cultural awareness, to ecologically sensitive behavior, to supporting alternatives both in Ladakh and in their own home communities.
	www.isec.org.uk /pages/ladakh.html (1796 words)

	FSCC Local News Services: Ancient Futures Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Ladakhi people were happy, contented, and lived in an elaborate, tightly-knit social fabric that did not know greed or suffering on an individual or social scale.
		Ladakhi society is under tremendous pressure to "progress" into the Westernized model of a cash economy, purchased goods, and increased trade.
		With the arrival of tourists, roadways from India to the South, and imported kerosene for heating, the Ladakhi society is under tremendous pressure to "progress" into the Westernized model of a cash economy, purchased goods, and increased trade.
	www.myflorida.com /fdi/fscc/news/world/9904/ancient.htm (505 words)

	Peaceful Societies
		In traditional Ladakhi society the oldest son would inherit the house of the parents; younger brothers, in order to gain a share of the inheritance, could also marry the wife of their oldest brother.
		Ladakhi babies are cared for constantly and lovingly, mostly by the mothers but also by others in the family.
		The Ladakhis are known for their patience, tolerance, honesty, and truthfulness with one another.
	www.peacefulsocieties.org /Society/Ladakhis.html (1026 words)

	Asia Times
		They wanted Bodhi, the mother tongue of the Ladakhis, to be made the medium of instruction for school education, and special provisions made for facilitating higher education and training in medicine, law, engineering, agriculture and forestry.
		Thus, Ladakhis' long-standing demand for direct administration from New Delhi emanates from deep-rooted alienation and a widely shared perception of having been treated as a "colony" by the Kashmiris.
		Since then, however, the Ladakhi Buddhists have mended their path and adopted a more conciliatory course of action from which there is much to learn.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EA09Df04.html (1544 words)

	GORP - A Tale From Ladakh - Growing up in Little Tibet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Though it is place of few resources and an extreme climate, the Buddhist Ladakhis, with their traditions of frugality and their intimate knowledge of the local environment, have not only survived but actually prospered.
		In fact it was many years later that the Ladakhis were able to convince some city-dwelling school administrator to arrange the school holidays during the harvest season so the children could help in the fields and learn from their parents.
		The rimpoche was a powerful figure in the local Ladakhi politics at the time, and being connected to the family by marriage raised Phuntsok's status considerably amongst his school friends.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/asia/india/ladakh1.htm (984 words)

	Sonam Wangchuk \| Ashoka.org
		Meanwhile, by publishing and distributing the first Ladakhi magazines and teaching materials, Sonam is playing a significant role in establishing a modern written Ladakhi language.
		Conversely, the Muslim Ladakhis in Pakistan, an Islamic country, are keen to establish a stronger Ladakhi identity and want to work toward establishing a script.
		He feels that the opportunity to learn Ladakhi was one of the best things she provided, particularly since the schools he attended later did not teach the language.
	www.ashoka.org /node/2634 (1971 words)

	Daily Excelsior.........State
		Ladakhi students presenting Jabro— a traditional Ladakhi dance- on the occasion of the celebrations of the Losar.
		ALSUJ demanded relaxation for Ladakhi students in college admissions and increase of the quota of the Ladakhi students in the hostels of different colleges and also in the University of Jammu.
		Ladakhi students also expressed concern that this year the Ladakhi students were not given due representation for Master degree programme in University of Jammu.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /99dec27/state.htm (3672 words)

	Losar Ladakhi
		In the districts, we follow the ladakhis families going from house to house to exchange their wishes.
		During this period, Ladakhis are derssed with their most beautiful costumes.
		We spend the day in company of a ladakhi family, visit their house, eat with them...
	www.himalayaventures.com /english/losareng.htm (474 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Travel: A travel feature on Ladakh in India.
		The Ladakhi people have endured centuries of invasions from the Mongols of central Asia, the Baltis from Baltistan that lies to the west, the Dogras from the south and occasionally, even the Tibetans from the east.
		Life in the small Ladakhi villages, often hidden in deep valleys to shelter from the bitter winter winds, had remained unchanged for centuries.
		Phuntsok's father, though an illiterate farmer in a remote Ladakhi valley, had the foresight and good sense to send the young boy to high school in Leh and then to college in New Delhi.
	www.rediff.com /travel/1998/mar/17lad.htm (910 words)

	Learning from Ladakh - Vol 15 No 4 - Rethinking Schools Online
		Ladakhi poet and Buddhist scholar, Tashi Rapkis, concludes in the video, Ladakhis are "getting more money, they're having more technology, they are getting very comfortable.
		He says that 90 to 95 percent of Ladakhi students fail their final school exams and emphasizes what a tragedy this is for them and for the entire culture:
		Still others blamed the Ladakhis themselves; no one had forced these changes on them — ultimately the defense and preservation of their culture was no one's responsibility but theirs.
	www.rethinkingschools.org /archive/15_04/Lad154.shtml (3365 words)

	Lessons from an ancient culture, Interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge, by Monte Leach; Social justice issues, Share ...
		In the intervening years, she has worked with the Ladakhi people to protect their culture and environment from the effects of rapid modernization.
		In 1978 she founded the Ladakh Project, with the goal of providing the Ladakhi people with the means to make more informed choices about their own future.
		My goal was not to tell the Ladakhis what to do, not even to tell them that they should stay exactly the way they were, but to provide as much information as possible on what life is really like in the West.
	www.shareintl.org /archives/social-justice/sj_mllessons.htm (2007 words)

	Languages in Jammu & Kashmir
		Ladakhi differs substantially from Tibetan although they belong to the same family of languages and Ladakhi is written in the Tibetan script.
		There is one ladakhi word one should learn even before one arrives since one will use it many, many times each day.
		The Ladakhi's are friendly, outgoing, spontaneous people and they call out "Jullay" to everyone they meet --local or foreigner.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /jammu-kashmir/languages (455 words)

	Die Menschen/The People
		The Ladakhi is part of the Sino-Tibetan language but is also a form of archaic Tibetan dialect.
		The official languages taught in all schools are Urdu and English although Ladakhi is still the language that is most widely used.
		Ladakhi Buddhism is strongly related to Tibetan Buddhism with a variation of the Mahayana tradition.
	www.baukunst.tuwien.ac.at /ladakh/menschen.html (451 words)

	Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As a consequence, Ladakhis, particularly the young people, feel that their lifestyle seems poor and backward.
		Tourists, in turn, are often unaware that they reinforce these feelings and insecurities by not being well informed about the values traditional Ladakhi communities have been built upon.
		The spoken language of Ladakh is Ladakhi and since LadakhÂ’s annexation to Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, the official language of Ladakh has been Urdu.
	academic.evergreen.edu /d/donter03/Problems.html (642 words)

	The Untouchability in Ladakh : An Unethical Practice by Stanzin Dawa
		Unless we know the whole truth we have many prejudices, and to know the whole truth we need to unlearn many things which have conditioned our mind to be stereotype and judgmental.
		Despite the Constitutional guarantee of "Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth" under Article-15 of the Indian constitution and "Abolition of untouchability" under article-17 Garba (the smiths), Mon (musician) and Beda are victims of many violations in Ladakh.
		As LBA is considered to be the guardian of Ladakhi Buddhist to protect their interest.
	www.boloji.com /opinion/0210.htm (1833 words)

	Ladakh Calendar,Calandar Ladakh,Festival Calendar of Ladakh,Ladakh Festivals Calendar,Holiday Ladakh Calendar ...
		Ladakhis use the Tibetan calendar for, among other things, determining the dates of monastic festivals.
		For Ladakhis, religion is a daily affair with visible rituals that are frequently observed.
		Most Ladakhi festivals are religious in nature, take place at the gompas and unfortunately for the general tourist, occur during the winter months.
	www.oasisexcursions.com /discover-ladakh/ladakh-calander.html (964 words)

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