Buddhists
Lepcha Buddhism Threatened
A news story in Reuters India last weekend describes the increasing problems of Buddhism in Sikkim, which may threaten the peaceful lifestyle of the minority Lepcha people. Carried by the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other sources, the article by Simon Denyer describes the superficial health of the Buddhist monasteries. But it indicates that […]
Quran Desecration Provokes Violence in Ladakh
While the news has focused on worldwide protests against Danish cartoons that depicted the Prophet Mohammed, serious violence erupted last week in Ladakh over an act of vandalism that also angered Muslims. Accounts in the Indian press vary in some of the details, but on Sunday night, February 5, someone tore pages out of a […]
Violence Threatens the Peaceful Societies of North India, Part 3: The Roots of Conflict in Ladakh [book review]
To the unsophisticated outsider, the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir has been about religion, territory and fervent nationalism. But conflicts in the region, especially in the Ladakh districts of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, are far more complex than that. The political struggles in the region tend to aggravate already-existing conflicts […]
