Official Links

NGOs working in Ladakh

News sources for Ladakh

Daily Excelsior
Kashmir Times
Ladakh Times
REACH Ladakh - a comprehensive one-stop information hub providing current news and tourist information on Ladakh.
Scoop News - up-to-date news covering Ladakh's social, political and economic affairs.

Links to Himalayan Studies

Community homepage for collections of the Warburg Institute Permanent archive for digital scholarly and research materials, catalogued according to region and cover subjects of historical, religious and/or cultural importance in Kinnaur, Spiti, Lahaul and Ladakh.
Digital Himalaya A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region
Flora Himalaya Database a database concerning the flora of the Himalayas, from Eastern Afghanistan to Northern Myanmar, covering 2 000 000 km2.
Himalaya, published by the ANHS
ICIMOD maps/books online
Ippolito Desideri Online resource dedicated to the scholar and missionary.
Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
LadakhFlowers.com an illustrated site, with downloads, documenting the comprehensive botanical surveys of Hans Hartmann.
Men Tsee Khang in Dharmsala
Pasang Yonten’s Tibetan Medicine Site
Tibet and Himlayan Digital Library
Tibet Heritage Fund Details of the Fund's Ladakh Project, including Leh old town conservation, Leh rock carvings and Alchi Tsatsapuri.
University of Heidelberg Research project on Rock Inscriptions and Carvings along the Karakoram Highway.
University of Vienna Research programme on “The Cultural History of the Western Himalayas from the 10th to the 14th Century”. This interdisciplinary research unit combines Art History with Tibetology, Buddhist Studies, Architecture, Linguistics & Cultural Anthropology.

Other Sites of Interest:

Heart Sutra Parallel Tibetan and English translation with recorded sound clips in Ladakhi Tibetan.
Kargil on Wikipedia
Ladakh on Wikipedia
The Himalayan Documentray Foundation A series of initiatives using film to document traditional Ladakhi life and responses to the changing environment.
trekzanskar.org
Zangskar Internet resources
Zangskar on Wikipedia