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Lepcha people in Nepal. The Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal classifies the Lepcha as a subgroup within the broader social group of Mountain/Hill Janajati. [27] At the time of the 2011 Nepal census, 3,445 people identified as Lepcha, one in every 7,690 or the total Nepalese population (26,494,504).
Mun (religion) Mun or Munism (also called Bongthingism) is the traditional polytheistic, animist, shamanistic and syncretic religion of the Lepcha people. It predates the 7th century Lepcha conversion to Lamaistic Buddhism, and since that time, the Lepcha have practiced it together with Buddhism. Since the arrival of Christian missionaries in ...
Numerous ethnic groups inhabit Bhutan, but the Ngalop people who speak the Dzongkha language constitute a majority of the Bhutanese population. [1] [2] The Bhutanese are of four main ethnic groups, which themselves are not necessarily exclusive – the politically and culturally dominant Ngalop of western and northern Bhutan, the Sharchop of eastern Bhutan, the Lhotshampa concentrated in ...
It is the mother tongue of the Tshangla people, generally known by its exonym Sharchops. It is the dominant language in Eastern Bhutan and was formerly spoken as a lingua franca in the region. [2] The Gongduk language is an endangered language that has approximately 1,000 speakers in isolated villages along the Kuri Chhu river in Eastern Bhutan.
Lepcha language, or Róng language (Lepcha: ᰛᰩᰵᰛᰧᰵᰶ; Róng ríng), is a Himalayish language spoken by the Lepcha people in Sikkim, India and parts of West Bengal, Nepal, and Bhutan. Despite spirited attempts to preserve the language, Lepcha has already effectively been lost everywhere in favour of Nepali. [citation needed]
The Lepcha reservation in Dzongu valley of north Sikkim [22] [23] is threatened by dam construction. [24] The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC), founded in 1999 is a tribal organisation that promotes the socio-politico-economic rights of the Bhutia and Lepcha people as detailed in Article 371F of the Indian Constitution. [25] [26]
Gaeboo Achyok ( r. c. 1660 – 1676) [ 1] or Gyalpo Ajok ( Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕོག, Wylie: rgyal po A lcog, THL: gyalpo achok) was a Lepcha chieftain of a principality based at Damsang, presently in the Kalimpong district of West Bengal, India. Achyok faced active threats from Bhutan and formed an alliance with Tibet; the conflict resulted ...
Culture of Bhutan. Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated country bordered by India to the south, and China to the north, Bhutan has long maintained a policy of strict isolationism, both culturally and economically, with the ...