![]() ![]() ![]() In consequence, there are Red hat majorities in both Bhutan and Sikkim to this day. Many fearing the same fate as their Red hat brethren fled southwards towards Sikkim and Bhutan. There was a mass persecution of the followers of the Red hat sect by the victorious Güshi Khan and his Gelug allies. With the final victory of the Yellow hats in the mid-1600s. But during the 13th century many clans came with Gyed Bum Sa, and thereafter there was a series of Lamas who visited southwards, because of the constant conflicts between Red hat and Yellow Hat in Tibet. Most Bhutias practice the Nyingma school, followed by the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.įrom the 8th century, people migrated from Tibet to Sikkim in small numbers. The language spoken by the Bhutias in Sikkim is Sikkimese, which is 75% mutually intelligible with Tibetan and Dzongkha, the language of Bhutan. Bhutia here refers to people of Tibetic ancestry. In 2001, the Bhutia numbered around 60,300. The Bhutia ( བོད་རིགས Sikkimese: Drenjongpa/Drenjop Tibetan: འབྲས་ལྗོངས་པ་, Wylie: Bras-ljongs-pa "inhabitants of Sikkim") are a community of Sikkimese people living in the state of Sikkim in northeastern India, who speak Drenjongke or Sikkimese, a Tibetic language fairly mutually intelligible with standard Tibetan. ![]() Here he can be seen wearing a "Tibetan Amulet" to protect him from evil spirits.īhutia woman with precious coral headdress, agate Buddhist prayer beads, turquoise earrings and silk chuba before 1915 in Darjeeling ![]()
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