This article explores the historical background of social and political activism among Buddhists in Ladakh in an attempt to present a framework for understanding recent agitation for local autonomy in the region. The identification of Buddhists with Ladakh is emphasised as a crucial practice of social identification which continues to inform present political performance in Ladakh. How the identification of a special relationship between Buddhists and Ladakh was constructed and how this identification gained a political resonance are the main questions which are dealt with in the article. Taking as its point of departure the first representations of Ladakh Buddhists as a coherent, stable community, the article investigates the conditions wh...
Sam van Schaik, "Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics," in Transfer of B...
Zanskar valley, nested in the Indian Himalayas is at a turning point of its history. After centuries...
The article considers the history of Buddhism in Central Asia and in Russia. It outlines the main pe...
This article explores the historical background of social and political activism among Buddhists in ...
This paper explores the question of the introduction of Buddhism to Ladakh by looking at a series of...
The influences of two major religions – Buddhism and Islam - are interwoven in Ladakhi history and c...
Abstract Phu mkhar rdzong, a pilgrimage site in Ladakh This paper describes the pilgrimage of Phu mk...
Following the partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, the residents of Leh, Ladakh became citi...
Ladakh hosts a mixed population of Buddhists and Muslims that belies its popular image as a solely B...
This article is an excerpt from larger piece of research on the rela tions between the religious and...
The article invites readers to reconsider the history of Buddhism in Russian Trans-Baikal as a gradu...
Hans Braker, Buddhism in the Soviet Union. The object of this article is first of all to analyse cer...
Tantrism, which was introduced into the Kathmandu Valley at a very early date (seventh to eighth cen...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.T...
The history of Nepal's Christianization teaches us that missionaries had long prepared the actual ri...
Sam van Schaik, "Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics," in Transfer of B...
Zanskar valley, nested in the Indian Himalayas is at a turning point of its history. After centuries...
The article considers the history of Buddhism in Central Asia and in Russia. It outlines the main pe...
This article explores the historical background of social and political activism among Buddhists in ...
This paper explores the question of the introduction of Buddhism to Ladakh by looking at a series of...
The influences of two major religions – Buddhism and Islam - are interwoven in Ladakhi history and c...
Abstract Phu mkhar rdzong, a pilgrimage site in Ladakh This paper describes the pilgrimage of Phu mk...
Following the partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, the residents of Leh, Ladakh became citi...
Ladakh hosts a mixed population of Buddhists and Muslims that belies its popular image as a solely B...
This article is an excerpt from larger piece of research on the rela tions between the religious and...
The article invites readers to reconsider the history of Buddhism in Russian Trans-Baikal as a gradu...
Hans Braker, Buddhism in the Soviet Union. The object of this article is first of all to analyse cer...
Tantrism, which was introduced into the Kathmandu Valley at a very early date (seventh to eighth cen...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.T...
The history of Nepal's Christianization teaches us that missionaries had long prepared the actual ri...
Sam van Schaik, "Tibetan Buddhism in Central Asia: Geopolitics and Group Dynamics," in Transfer of B...
Zanskar valley, nested in the Indian Himalayas is at a turning point of its history. After centuries...
The article considers the history of Buddhism in Central Asia and in Russia. It outlines the main pe...