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12 Indian reinforcements sent by air to a hastily constructed airfield succeeded in defending Leh. The ceasefire line imposed in January 1949 has cut off Ladakh and Baltistan from each other ever since. There were further wars between India and Pakistan 1965 and 1971. Since the late 1980s, there has been sporadic fighting in the Siachen Glacier at the northern extremity of the Line of Control. In 1999 a Pakistani incursion in the heights overlooking the Leh-Srinagar road escalated into the ‘Kargil War’.

Pelliot, Paul. 1961. Histoire ancienne du Tibet. Paris: Librairie d’Amérique et d’Orient. Sperling, Elliot. 1992. ” In Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the 5th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Narita 1989. 2, pp. 741-50. Edited by Ihara Shoren and Yamaguchi Zuiho. Narita: Naritasan Shinshoji. Sprigg, Richard Keith. 1972. ” Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies 35:546-587. A. 1959. Recherches sur l’épopée et le barde au Tibet. Paris: Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises.

Meanwhile, the leading monasteries maintained their connections with Tibet and continued to send monks there for religious training. One example was Geshe Ye-shes-don-grup (1897-1980), one of the most prominent Ladakhi Buddhist leaders of his generation. 335-352) shows how he began his monastic career as a child-monk in his home village of Stok before travelling with the lo-phyag mission to Tashi Lhunpo in Central Tibet where he studied for the dka-chen degree. He returned to Ladakh at the age of 37, and emerged as an important teacher, writer and religious leader whose role was all the more important because of the challenges of accelerating social change in the second half of the 20th century.

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