Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition Life and Society a
This book presents various facets of border life in the strategic eastern sector of the India-China frontier, i.e. the Monpas of Tawang. It addresses the history of the Monpas’ transnational cultural and religious interaction. The respective chapters cove
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Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition Life and Society along the India-China Borderland
Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition
M. Mayilvaganan Nasima Khatoon Sourina Bej •
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Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition Life and Society along the India-China Borderland
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Editors M. Mayilvaganan National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science campus Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Nasima Khatoon National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science campus Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Sourina Bej National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science campus Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
ISBN 978-981-15-4345-6 ISBN 978-981-15-4346-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4346-3
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Preface
I did not have any information about the people, society or environment in that region like other Indians, till our research study, as it was a remote, isolated and unknown place for many, in India. And I and my team did not envisage that we would ever visit that part of the world. The research study on Monpas and Tawang between 2017 and 2019, in fact, aided in bringing me and my research team to this wonderful borderland, a spiritual heaven lies 10,000 feet above sea level with an atmosphere of infinite peace, calm and beauty amid snow capped mountains coupled with the colourful monasteries and the smiling local Monpas with the low rumbling Buddhist chants. Tawang had always fascinated me since then. Tawang, the name of the place, is believed to have been derived after the dazzling Tawang Gompa (Buddhist Mon
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