Kashmir’s Buddhist Ladakh

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Kashmir’s Buddhist Ladakh

Author: M.G. Chitkara
Order No. 51165
ISBN: 8176484407
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2003
Pages: 184
Language: English

Kashmir has been the most difficult issue confronting the Indian nation, with ramifications. About two thousand years or more ago, Kashmir was a great Buddhist centre and some of the famous Buddhist councils were held there. From then onwards it continued to be one of the principal centers of Sanskrit learning. Nearly a thousand years ago, Arab and Persian influences first affected Kashmir and later, under Muslim rule, Persian became the recognized official language. Thus Kashmir experienced successively and some times together Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim influences, creating a mixed but harmonized culture which is so evident even today in Kashmir.