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Sharchop is a collective term for the indigenious tribals of The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small, landlocked nation of South Asia, located in the Himalaya Mountains, sandwiched between India and the Peoples Republic of China. The local name for the country, Druk Yul (pronounced dru ü), means land of the dragon. It is also called Druk Tsendhen, land... Bhutan, who constitute around 20% of population. Due to the fact that they are descended from the early waves of Tibetans from This article is on Historic Tibet. Tibet can also refer to the Tibet Autonomous Region. Tibet (Tibetan : བོད་, (Bod) pronounced Pö, Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng) is a region of Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. With an average elevation... Tibet, many of them are pushed south of the country. This may or may not include the aboroginie The Monpa (门巴) are an ethnic group in the Peoples Republic of China, with a population of 50,000, centered in the districts of Tawang and West Kameng. Another 25,000 of them can be found in the district of Cuona in Tibet, where they are known as... Monpa, Gongduk, The Doya are one of the little-known abroginal inhabitants of Southwest Bhutan, around the villages of Samtsi and Phuntsoling in the Duars. They are also known as the Lhop or Lhokpu and speak a Tibeto-Burman language. The dress of the Doya resembles the Lepcha, but they bear little... Lhop, The Lepcha (Population: 50,000) are the aboriginal inhabitants of present day Sikkim. Many of them are found in Western and South-Western Bhutan, the Ilam district Eastern Nepal and even the hills of West Bengal. The origin of the Lepcha is obscure. Some anthropologists suggested that they might have... Lepcha and several other tribal groups.


Most Sharchops follow Tibetan Buddhism, (formerly also called Lamaism after their religious gurus known as lamas), is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and the Himalayan region. It is a school within Tantric Buddhism (also called Vajrayana Buddhism), which in turn is part of the great Mahayana school... Tibetan Buddhism with some elements of Bön is typically described as the shamanistic religion in Tibet before the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century. With the exile of Bönpo lamas to India and the West in the wake of the communist takeover of Tibet in 1959, however, a more complex description... Bön, although those who live in the Duars follow Animism and This article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). Aum, the most sacred syllable and quintessential symbol of Hinduism, represents the first manifestation of the unmanifest Brahman. Hinduism (सनातन धर्म; commonly called Sanātana Dharma... Hinduism. This included the Toro people.


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The Sharchop are part of the Tibeto-Burman culture that penetrated Bhutan from the East.
The Sharchop are part of an agricultural society and often use a "slash and burn" method of farming.
Sharchop houses are made of stone and wood, and are usually built on stilts in dispersed settlements along the mountain slopes.
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The three main ethnic groups live geographically separated with the dominant political group; the Ngalop in the west, the Sharchops in the east and the southern Bhutanese of Nepali origin (also known as Lhotshampas) in the south.
Together, the Ngalop, Sharchop, and tribal groups were thought to constitute up to 72 percent of the population in the late 1980s.
The second ethnic group is called Sharchop, who inhabit in eastern and central region and practice Nyingmapa sect of Mahayana Buddhism and belong to Tibeto-Burman ancestry.
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