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Distro - Ladakh: Traditional Medicine 

Stuart Franklin 

Ladakh is a district of Jammu and Kashmir in the north of India, a region that borders Pakistan, China, Tibet, and Nepal. Unitl 1974 Ladakh was totally closed to foreigners due to an ensuing conflict with China. Today it is remote with a road connecting it to the rest of India for the short summer season and flights from Delhi that are frequently cancelled due to bad weather. 'Amchi' or traditional medicine is widely practiced in Ladakh and became strongly embedded in Ladakhi culture and throughout the Himalayas after the mass exodus from neighbouring Tibet during the 1950s. The roots of the... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate Buddha’s birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhist temple. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhist temple. Carrying the sacred texts... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhist temple. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Students of tradition medicine working on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Students of tradition medicine working on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pictures of patients being treated by the... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pictures of patients being treated by the... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. General pictures of the street. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. The clinic of amchi Dr Karma Chodon in her... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. 76 year old amchi Stanzin Sherab, who fled... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. A general scene in Leh. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. Stream running through village. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. En route to the village of Khema from Agyam... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Near Agyam. Tsewang Dolker on the trail towards... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khyungru. Nilza Angmo prepares to leave the path... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. Carrying hay. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Tsewang Dolker (right), a newly qualified... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Pashmeena goats returning home. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. Nilza Angmo with a sick patient in the... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. Pasheena goats near a brook.2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Kehma. Tsewang Dolker preparing her first clinic... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Tsewang Dolker with her first patient in... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. View down the gorge near Khema. 2004. 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Agyam. Resting the horses on the route through... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pharmacist Amhci Norbu (left) prepares and... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. ÔFlagging offÕ ceremony for students that... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. General view looking over the city. 2004.... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Portrait of ÔamchiÕ Rigzin Wangtak Ð President... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Portrait of ÔamchiÕ Rigzin Wangtak Ð President... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Portrait of ÔamchiÕ Rigzin Wangtak Ð President... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Buddhists celebrate BuddhaÕs birthday on... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Amchi traditional pharmacy. Close-up of... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Amchi traditional pharmacy. Close-up of... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Amchi Thinles Yangjor teaching at the Central... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Central Institute of Buddhist Studies Ð a... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Student of amchi Thinles Yangjor, Tashi Dolma... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pictures of the Chief Amchi (for the Leh... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pictures of the Chief Amchi (for the Leh... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Leh. Pictures of the Chief Amchi (for the Leh... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khyungru. Nilza Angmo prepares to leave the path... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Traditional upland village in Ladakh where... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Traditional upland village in Ladakh where... 

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INDIA. Ladakh. Khema. Traditional upland village in Ladakh where... 
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