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a view from Wanla Monastery
Wanla Gompa (Urdu:وانلا گومپا) is a historic Buddhist monastery on the ridge that crowns Wanla village in Ladakh, part of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Its small but impressively preserved three-storeyed Avalokitesvara temple is one of the earliest known Drigung Kagyu prayer chambers to have survived in Ladakh. Wanla is a sub-monastery of Lamayuru which provides a caretaker monk responsible for daily rituals and for granting access to the temple The main image features Avalokitesvara in 11-headed ("Chuchigzhel") form. [source Wikipedia]
Fotu La (Hindi: फ़ोतु ला) or Fatu La is a mountain pass on the Srinagar-Leh highway in the Himalayas Zaskar Range in India. At an elevation of 4,108 metres (13,478 ft), it is the highest point on the highway, surpassing the famed Zoji La.
Fotu La is one of two high mountain passes between Leh and Kargil, the other being Namika La.
With each visit to Ladakh, I end up writing an essay on beauty. Has happened before and it happens again this time around. I'm not even surprised.
If there is one reason why Ladakh pulls me back year after year, it would be 'The People'. Not only are they genuinely kind and soft hearted but they define the word 'Beauty' in true sense.
In a world where beauty is applied in layers, smiles measured in grams and deeds connected to returns, here we have a place in middle of no where, away from all the madness of our "developed" world - with locals leading life as it's meant to be. Keeping it real and keeping it simple.
The idea of beauty is not the physical appearance of a person. Rather, it is an understanding of their culture, lifestyle and mannerisms that gives perceptual experience to one’s eyes, ears, intellect, and moral sense. Natural, powerful, real beauty originates from within the heart of individuals and when it blossoms, it is expressed in the most captivating, exquisite, and alluring manner which is hard to contain. Its contagious and I get a good dose of it with every visit to Ladakh. It's these people - the Ladakhis - who define the idea of beauty to me - in and out - period.
Yet another image of Padma Lamu - The Aryan. Everything said above holds true for this little girl. She defines beauty the right way.
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A cluster of remote Himalayan villages claim to hold a bastion of purebred Aryans—the last in the world completely un-muddied by the outside gene pool.
For decades, visitors have been drawn to the Ladakh province of Kashmir in India by the promise of a master race that has remained intact for thousands of years. The Brogpas, or Brokpas, say they are the purest remnants of light-skinned European invaders who, legend has it, traveled through India thousands of years ago.
The tribe’s true origins are impossible to place, though that hasn’t stopped large amounts of speculation. One popular legend claims the community is the remainder of Alexander the Great’s army.
Unlike the majority of the Ladakhis with Tibeto-Mongol looks, the Brogpas have Indo-Aryan features.
Exploring Aryan villages has been something I have been waiting for years. Finally fulfilled the wish 6 days back as part of my #LadakhWorkshop for #PhotowalkConnect. Can't wait to visit the village yet again next week with fellow photographers from #PhotowalkDubai.
Featured here is the most beautiful Aryan I came across during the shoot - Padma Lamu. She defines beauty in most graceful way.
More images from Aryan Village - soon :)
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The Mangyu temple complex located in the village of Mangyu, Ladakh is one of the earliest in Ladakh region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Believed to be contemporaneous to the temples at Alchi Monastery and Sumda Chun, the earliest structures are supposed to be dating to the late 12th/early 13th century but as per the oral history and local belief the temples were established by Lotsawa Rinchen Zangpo. Main temple complex comprise two early temples (Sakyamuni and Vairocana temples) situated adjacent to each other and two chapels, one each on either side of the temples, that house large images of two armed and four armed Maitreya. [SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA]
Tso Moriri or Lake Moriri (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོའི་བླ་མཚོ, Wylie: lha mo bla mtsho) or "Mountain Lake", is a lake in the Ladakhi part of the Changthang Plateau (literally: northern plains) in Jammu and Kashmir in northern India. The lake and surrounding area are protected as the Tso Moriri Wetland Conservation Reserve.
The lake is at an altitude of 4,522 m (14,836 ft). It is the largest of the high altitude lakes entirely within India and entirely within Ladakh in this Trans-Himalayan biogeographic region. It is about 16 miles (26 km) north to south in length and two to three miles (3 to 5 km) wide. The lake has no outlet at present and the water is brackish though not very perceptible to taste.