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Nebesky-Wojkowitz also made several excursions among the Lepcha of Sikkim (nos. 7, 10, 14, 15). In 1954 he spent five months in Leiden identifying the collection of Lepcha manuscripts at the National Museum of Ethnology, where he had already made a list of the titles of Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts during a seven-month stay in 1953.
Róng manuscript. Lepcha is derived from the Tibetan script, and may have some Burmese influence. According to tradition, it was devised at the beginning of the 18th century by prince Chakdor Namgyal of the Namgyal dynasty of Sikkim, or by scholar Thikúng Men Salóng in the 17th century. Early Lepcha manuscripts were written vertically.
Lepcha (Róng) manuscript. The indigenous Sikkimese show wide cultural variation. The Lepcha speak Lepcha and use Lepcha script and the script is descended from the Tibetan script. [18] Traditionally, Lepcha men wear gadas and tie a patang, a kind of weapon, on their waist and don a bamboo cap; women wear distinctive dresses and ornaments. [19]
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.
Lepcha: Tibetan: 8th century Lepcha language: Lepc U+1C00–U+1C4F ᰛᰩᰴ Limbu: Lepcha: 9th century Limbu language: Limb U+1900–U+194F ᤛᤡᤖᤡᤈᤨᤅ: Lontara: Kawi: 17th century Buginese language, others Bugi U+1A00–U+1A1F ᨒᨚᨈᨑ Mahajani: Landa: 16th century Historically used in northern India for writing accounts and ...
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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.
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.