Spiti, the Glossary
Spiti (pronounced as Piti in Bhoti language) is a high-altitude region of the Himalayas, located in the north-eastern part of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.[1]
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- Geography of Lahaul and Spiti district
- Regions of Tibet
- Valleys of Himachal Pradesh
Aconitum
Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Alkanna tinctoria
Alkanna tinctoria, the dyer's alkanet or simply alkanet, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae.
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Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness, the mildest form being acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a harmful effect of high altitude, caused by rapid exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high elevation.
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Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China
Tibet came under the control of People's Republic of China (PRC) after the Government of Tibet signed the Seventeen Point Agreement which the 14th Dalai Lama ratified on 24 October 1951, but later repudiated on the grounds that he had rendered his approval for the agreement under duress.
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Ara (drink)
Ara, or Arag, (Tibetan and Dzongkha: ཨ་རག་; Wylie: a-rag; "alcohol, liquor") is a traditional alcoholic beverage consumed in Bhutan.
Artemisia (plant)
Artemisia is a large, diverse genus of plants belonging to the daisy family Asteraceae, with almost 500 species.
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Atal Tunnel
Atal Tunnel (also known as Rohtang Tunnel), named after former Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a highway tunnel built under the Rohtang Pass in the eastern Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas on the National Highway 3 in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Backpacking (hiking)
Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back while hiking for more than a day.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Bearded vulture
The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage, is a very large bird of prey in the monotypic genus Gypaetus.
Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.
Bushahr
Bushahr, also spelt as 'Bashahr' and 'Bussahir' or 'Bushair' was a Rajput princely state in India during the British Raj.
Chandra Taal
Chandra Taal is a lake in the upper Chandra valley of the Lahul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India. Spiti and Chandra Taal are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
Chau Chau Kang Nilda
Chau Chau Kang Nilda also known as 'Guan Nelda' or 'blue moon in the sky' is a mountain in the western Himalayas. Spiti and Chau Chau Kang Nilda are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
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Chhaang
Chhaang or chhyang (छ्याङ, थो) is a Nepalese and Tibetan alcoholic beverage also popular in parts of the eastern Himalayas, Yakkha, Limbu, Dura, Newar, Sunuwar, Rai, Gurung, Magar, Sherpa, Tamang, Tharus and Lepcha communities.
Chukar partridge
The chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), or simply chukar, is a Palearctic upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
Dacoity
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent.
Dactylorhiza hatagirea
Dactylorhiza hatagirea is a species of orchid generally found growing in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to SE Tibet, at altitudes of.
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Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
Dhankar Gompa
Dhankar Gompa (also Dankhar, Drangkhar or Dhangkar Gompa; Brang-mkhar or Grang-mkhar) is a village and also a Gompa, a Buddhist temple in the district of Lahaul and Spiti in India.
Dhankar Lake
Dhankar Lake is a high-altitude lake in Spiti Valley, in the Himachal Pradesh state of India. Spiti and Dhankar Lake are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
Dogra dynasty
The Dogra dynasty of Dogra Rajputs from the Shivalik hills created Jammu and Kashmir when all dynastic kingdoms in India were being absorbed by the East India Company.
Ephedra (plant)
Ephedra is a genus of gymnosperm shrubs.
Ferdinand Stoliczka
Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech written Stolička, 7 June 1838 – 19 June 1874) was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology.
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Gaddis
The Gaddi is a semi-pastoral Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic tribe living mainly in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Gelug
Bodhgaya (India). The Gelug (also Geluk; 'virtuous')Kay, David N. (2007).
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Geological Society of India
The Geological Society of India is based in Bangalore, India.
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Geological Survey of India
The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is a scientific agency of India.
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Giuseppe Tucci
Giuseppe Tucci (5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism.
Golden eagle
The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is a bird of prey living in the Northern Hemisphere.
Government of Himachal Pradesh
The Government of Himachal Pradesh also known as the State Government of Himachal Pradesh, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Highway (2014 Hindi film)
Highway is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language road drama film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala.
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Hikkim
Hikkim is a village in Lahaul and Spiti district in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh at an elevation of.
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Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.
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Himalayan snowcock
The Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis) is a snowcock in the pheasant family Phasianidae found across the Himalayan ranges and parts of the adjoining Pamir range of Asia.
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Himalayan vulture
The Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis) or Himalayan griffon vulture is an Old World vulture native to the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau.
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Himalayan wolf
The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is a canine of debated taxonomy.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
Hippophae
Hippophae is the genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae.
History of Tibetan Buddhism
Buddhists, predominantly from India, first actively disseminated their practices in Tibet from the 6th to the 9th centuries CE.
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Honeysuckle
Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the genus Lonicera of the family Caprifoliaceae.
Ice climbing
Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of frozen water.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ice skating
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Inner Line Permit
Inner Line Permit (ILP) is an official travel document issued by the state government concerned to allow inward travel of an Indian citizen into a protected area for a limited period.
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International Journal of Earth Sciences
International Journal of Earth Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media.
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Kaza
A kaza (قضا, "judgment" or "jurisdiction") was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire.
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Kaza, Himachal Pradesh
Kaza, also spelled Kaze, Karze, Karzey, is a town and the subdivisional headquarters of the remote Spiti Valley in the western Himalayas in the Lahaul and Spiti district of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Kesari (2019 film)
Kesari is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language war film written and directed by Anurag Singh.
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Key Monastery
Kye Gompa (also spelled Kyi, Ki, Key, or Kee; pronounced like the English word key) is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa sect located on top of a hill at an altitude of above sea level, close to the Spiti River, in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul and Spiti district, India.
Kibber
Kibber, also Kibber Khas and Khyipur, is a village high in the Spiti Valley in the Himalayas at in Himachal Pradesh in northern India.
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Kim (novel)
Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.
Kinnaur district
Kinnaur district is one of the twelve administrative districts of the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.
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Kullu district
Kullu is a district in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Kunzum Pass
Kunzum Pass (Tibetan: Kunzum La, elev.), is a high mountain pass in the eastern Kunzum Range of the Himalayas. Spiti and Kunzum Pass are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
Kyelang
Kyelang (also spelled Keylong) is a town and the administrative centre of the Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, north of Manali via Atal Tunnel and from the Indo-Tibetan border.
Kyide Nyimagon
Kyide Nyimagon, whose original name was Khri-skyid-lding, was a member of the Yarlung dynasty of Tibet and a descendant of emperor Langdarma.
Ladakh
Ladakh is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959.
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Lahaul and Spiti Assembly constituency
Lahaul and Spiti is one of the 68 assembly constituencies of Himachal Pradesh a northern Indian state.
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Lahaul and Spiti district
The Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh consists of the two formerly separate districts of Lahaul and Spiti. The present administrative center is Kyelang in Lahaul.
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Leh
Leh is a city in Ladakh in the Himalayan region.
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Lhachen Palgyigon
Lhachen Palgyigon was the founding king of the Kingdom of Maryul, based in modern Ladakh.
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Lhalung Monastery
Lhalung Monastery, Lhalun Monastery or Lalung Monastery (also known as the Sarkhang or Golden Temple), was one of the earliest monasteries founded in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India, by the great Tibetan Buddhist lotswa (translator) Rinchen Zangpo, the king of western Himalayan Kingdom of Guge during the late 10th century CE.
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Liyo, Kinnaur
Leo (also Liyo, Hindi: लियो) is a small village in Kinnaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is a travel guide book publisher.
Losar Khas
Losar Khas or Losar is a village on the right bank of the Spiti River in District Lahaul Spiti in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Manali, Himachal Pradesh
Manali is a town, near Kullu town in Kullu district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Mandi Lok Sabha constituency
Mandi Lok Sabha constituency is one of the four Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Himachal Pradesh state in northern India represented by Kangana Ranaut, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party since 2024.
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Mane villages, Spiti
Mane Kogma and Mane Yogma (also known as Mane Gogma/Gongma, Mane Yongma) are two small villages on opposite banks of a nullah in the cold desert region of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Manirang
Manirang is one of the highest mountains in the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. Spiti and Manirang are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
Massif
A massif is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central).
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Milarepa (2006 film)
Milarepa is a 2006 Tibetan-language film about the life of the most famous Tibetan tantric yogi, the eponymous Milarepa.
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Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
Mount Gya
Mount Gya, is a mountain peak located at above sea level.
Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
Mud (village)
Mud (also known as Mudh and Muth) is a small village in the cold desert region of Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Nako, Himachal Pradesh
Nako is a village in the Himalayas of northern India, located near the Indo-China border in the Trans-Himalayan region of Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh.
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Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh
The Namgyal dynasty was a dynasty whose rulers were the monarchs of the former kingdom of Ladakh that lasted from 1460 to 1842 and were titled the Gyalpo of Ladakh.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Highway 505 (India)
National Highway 505, commonly called NH 505, is a national highway in India.
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Nawang Tashi Rapten
Nawang Tashi Rapten (born 16 April 2018) is a Tibetan lama and the current Supreme Head of the Nyingma School, the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Neotectonics
Neotectonics, a subdiscipline of tectonics, is the study of the motions and deformations of Earth's crust (geological and geomorphological processes) that are current or recent in geologic time.
North India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
Nyingma
Nyingma, often referred to as Ngangyur, is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.
Outlook (Indian magazine)
Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.
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Paap
Paap is a 2003 Indian crime thriller film, directed by Pooja Bhatt in her directorial debut, and features John Abraham, Udita Goswami, Gulshan Grover and Mohan Agashe.
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Pea
Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.
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Pika
A pika is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America.
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Pin Valley National Park
Pin Valley National Park is a National park of India located in the Spiti Valley in the Lahaul and Spiti district, in the state of Himachal Pradesh. Spiti and Pin Valley National Park are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
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Polyandry in Tibet
Polyandry is a marital arrangement in which a woman has several husbands.
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Primogeniture
Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn legitimate child to inherit the parent's entire or main estate in preference to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child or any collateral relative.
Punjab Province (British India)
The Punjab Province was a province of British India.
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Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966
The Punjab Reorganisation Act was passed by the Indian Parliament on 18 September 1966, separating territory from the state of Punjab, most of which formed the new state of Haryana.
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Reckong Peo
Reckong Peo, also spelled Rekong Peo or simply known as Peo by the local inhabitants, is headquarters of Kinnaur district, one of the twelve administrative districts of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
Reo Purgyil
Reo Purgyil, sometimes known as Leo Pargial and Leo Pargil, is a mountain peak at the southern end of the Zanskar Range in the Western Himalaya.
Rosa sericea
Rosa sericea, the silky rose, is a species of flowering plant.
Rosefinch
The rosefinches are a genus, Carpodacus, of passerine birds in the finch family Fringillidae.
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.
Sakya
The Sakya ('pale earth') school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug.
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Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne (30 October 1834 – 24 April 1912) was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India.
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Scree
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Shilla (mountain)
Shilla is a mountain peak close to Spiti Valley, part of the Himalaya mountains. Spiti and Shilla (mountain) are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
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Shimla
Shimla (also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Siberian ibex
The Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica), also known using regionalized names including Altai ibex, Asian ibex, Central Asian ibex, Gobi ibex, Himalayan ibex, Mongolian ibex or Tian Shan ibex, is a polytypic species of ibex, a wild relative of goats and sheep.
Sikh Empire
The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent.
Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
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Snow leopard
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae.
Spiti
Spiti (pronounced as Piti in Bhoti language) is a high-altitude region of the Himalayas, located in the north-eastern part of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Spiti and Spiti are former principalities, geography of Lahaul and Spiti district, regions of Tibet and valleys of Himachal Pradesh.
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Spiti Bhoti
Spiti Bhoti is a Tibetic language spoken in Spiti valley, India.
States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
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Sutlej
The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.
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Tabo Monastery
Tabo Monastery (or Tabo Chos-Khor Monastery) is located in the Tabo village of Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh, northern India.
Tabo, Himachal Pradesh
Tabo is a small town in the Lahaul and Spiti district on the banks of the Spiti River in Himachal Pradesh, India. Spiti and Tabo, Himachal Pradesh are geography of Lahaul and Spiti district.
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Tangyud Monastery
The Tangyud Monastery (also written bTang-rGyud, Tangyuth) or Sa-skya-gong-mig Gompa at the village of Komic, two km southeast of Hikkim in the Spiti Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India, is built like a fortified castle on the edge of a deep canyon, with massive slanted mud walls and battlements with vertical red ochre and white vertical stripes which make them look much taller than they really are.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Tibetan tantric practice
Tibetan tantric practice, also known as "the practice of secret mantra", and "tantric techniques", refers to the main tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war
The Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal war of 1679–1684 was fought between the Central Tibetan Ganden Phodrang government, with the assistance of Mongol khanates, and the Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh with assistance from the Mughal Empire in Kashmir.
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Tonsure
Tonsure is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.
Treaty of Amritsar (1846)
The Treaty of Amritsar, executed by the British East India Company and Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu after the First Anglo-Sikh War, established the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir under the suzerainty of the British Indian Empire.
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UNESCO Headquarters
UNESCO Headquarters, or Maison de l'UNESCO, is a building inaugurated on 3 November 1958 at number 7 Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France, to serve as the headquarters for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Weasel
Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.
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Yak
The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan (Kashmir, Pakistan), Nepal, Sikkim (India), the Tibetan Plateau, (China), Tajikistan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia.
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Zhangzhung
Zhangzhung or Shangshung was an ancient kingdom in western and northwestern Tibet, pre-dating Tibetan Buddhism.
See also
Geography of Lahaul and Spiti district
- Bara Shigri Glacier
- Bara-lacha la
- Bhaba Pass
- Chandra Taal
- Chau Chau Kang Nilda
- Dashair Lake
- Debsa Pass
- Dhankar Lake
- Hamta Pass
- Kangla Tarbo 1
- Kunzum Pass
- Manirang
- Miyar Valley
- Mountain Mahindra
- Pin Parbati Pass
- Pin Valley National Park
- Ramabang
- Rohtang Pass
- Shilla (mountain)
- Shilla Col
- Shinku La
- Spiti
- Suraj Tal
- Tabo, Himachal Pradesh
- Takling La
Regions of Tibet
- Ü (region)
- Ü-Tsang
- Amdo
- Kham
- Kongpo
- Spiti
Valleys of Himachal Pradesh
- Baspa Valley
- Bhaba Valley
- Gwass-Bagi
- Habban Valley
- Joginder Nagar Valley
- Kangra Valley
- Kharahal
- Kullu Valley
- Kunihar
- Lug Valley
- Miyar Valley
- Pangi Valley
- Parvati Valley
- Satluj Valley
- Shiladesh
- Solang Valley
- Spiti
- Tons River
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiti
Also known as Spiti River, Spiti Valley.
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