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Encyclopedia > Buddhism in Pakistan

Although Pakistani statistics claim a small number of Buddhists on its territory, these Buddhists actually live in Ladakh[5] in Indian occupied Kashmir to the east of the Line of Control. Mostly Ladakhi and ethnically related to Tibetans (plus a few Indo-Aryan Dards), a rough dividing line between Islamic culture and Buddhist culture can be drawn through Mulbekh and Shergol in the Indus valley (to the east of Kargil) and well to the west of Leh, the Nun Kun massif and Rangdum Buddhist monastery at the head of the Suru river valley (a tributary of the Indus) on the Indian side of the line of control. Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ... Ladakh (Tibetan script: ལ་དྭགས་, Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ; IPA: , land of high passes) is a region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south. ... Tibetan can refer to: A place or item from Tibet. ... The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Islam (Arabic: ; ( ▶ (help· info)), the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Kargil was a part of Gilgit-Baltistan before 1947, but now is a town in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. ... View of Leh from Namgyal hill Leh Bazaar prior to 1871 Leh is the capital of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh, which is now a district in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. ... The Nun Kun mountain massif comprises a pair of Himalayan peaks Nun (7,135 m), the highest mountain in Kashmir, India, and Kun (7,035 m) are located in the Suru valley. ... Rangdum is a valley situated 3657 m above the sea level, in an isolated region of the Suru valley in Ladakh. ... Map of the Ladakh region with Suru Valley in the west The Suru valley is a valley in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, which is drained by the Suru river, a tributary of the Indus river. ...


See Ladakh for more information. Ladakh (Tibetan script: ལ་དྭགས་, Hindi: लद्दाख़, Urdu: لدّاخ; IPA: , land of high passes) is a region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in Northern India sandwiched between the Karakoram mountain range to the north and the Himalayas to the south. ...


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Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (8509 words)
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE.
Chinese Buddhism, Korean Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, and Vietnamese Buddhism.
Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4963 words)
Pakistan was an ally of the United States for much of its early history as a modern nation-state, from the 1950s and as a member of CENTO and SEATO.
Pakistan is the second largest Muslim country in terms of population and its status as adeclared nuclear power—the only Islamic nation—also plays into its role on the international scene.
Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and is faced with a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
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