Ladakh's Hemis and Losar festivals are marked by Cham, masked monastic dances performed to drum and horn in monastery courtyards carved into cliffside rock — Buddhist ritual theatre that predates any tourist calendar.
Pashmina goats are still herded by Changpa nomads across some of the highest inhabited terrain on earth, and the wool they produce starts a supply chain that ends, months later, in Kashmir's finished shawls.
Worth knowing
- ·Hemis Festival — masked Cham dance in a cliffside monastery courtyard
- ·Changpa nomads herding Pashmina goats across high-altitude terrain
- ·Thangka painting and traditional Ladakhi archery
Living traditions
Traditions & performing arts of Ladakh
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