Tibetan Buddhism is the main religion in Ladakh and is followed by the majority
of the population; Tibetan is the spiritual language of Ladakh. Irrespective of
the rugged terrain and remote inaccessible areas of Ladakh, lamas and monks passed
through them and built monasteries aka gompas all over the place.
There are innumerable monasteries in Ladakh, some in ruins while others are
still in inhabited, running as educational and religious centres. Monasteries
have for long held an important position in Ladakh. Families used to send their
youngest son/s to a monastery to live and to study, knowing that the local
community took care of the monks and provided food. In return the monks took
care of weddings, funerals and other important ceremonies and rituals. The
tradition of sending a son to a monastery also helped to control population
growth. Ladakh is one of the main centres of Tibetan Buddhism outside Tibet,
and is sometimes called Little Tibet.
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