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Brokpa
Minaro[1] | |
|---|---|
 Brokpa men in Ladakh, dressed up for Bona-na festival | |
| Total population | |
| 3,000–4,000[2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Ladakh | |
| Languages | |
| Brokskat | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Buddhism; Minority: Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Indo-Aryan peoples |
The Brokpa (Tibetan: འབྲོག་པ་, Wylie: ’brog pa, THL: drok pa), sometimes referred to as Minaro, are a small ethnic group mostly found in the union territory of Ladakh, India around the villages of Dha and Hanu. Some of the community are also located across the Line of Control in Baltistan in the villages around Ganokh. They speak an Indo-Aryan language called Brokskat.[3] The Brokpa are mostly Vajrayana Buddhist while some are Muslim.[4]
- ^ Indian Antiquary. Popular Prakashan. 1905. p. 93.
Minaro ,as they call themselves
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Ethnologue 2005was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cardona & Jain, Indo-Aryan Languages (2007), p. 889.
- ^ Vohra, Ethnographic Notes on the Buddhist Dards (1982).
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