इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Kinnaur & Spiti · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya
लोग
| नाम | वर्ष | क्षेत्र | किसलिए मशहूर |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rinchen Zangpo | 958–1055 | Translator and monastic founder | The great translator of the second diffusion of Buddhism in western Tibet, who is credited by tradition with founding a chain of monasteries across the western Himalaya, Tabo among them. The Tibetan canon in its western recension, and the Indo-Tibetan painting idiom that came with it, both travelled on his workshops. |
| Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) | Eighth century, by tradition | Tantric teacher, in tradition rather than record | Local tradition through the upper Sutlej and Spiti attaches meditation caves, rock imprints and consecration sites to him, and villages such as Nako maintain shrines on that basis. The historical record is thin and the attributions are devotional, but they matter here as evidence of how the valley understands the arrival of Buddhism — up the river, by teacher rather than by conquest. |
| Alexander Gerard | 1792–1839 | Surveyor | Surveyed the upper Sutlej and its passes in the 1810s and 1820s and wrote the first detailed outside account of Kinnaur, then called Koonawur. His measurements of village and pass altitudes are the earliest systematic record of the region's vertical geography. |
| Sándor Csoma de Kőrös | 1784–1842 | Philologist | A Hungarian scholar who spent years in the western Himalaya, including a long stay at the monastery of Kanam in upper Kinnaur around 1827–1830, working on the Tibetan language. His grammar and dictionary made Tibetan studies possible as a European discipline, and much of the work was done in a Kinnauri village. |
| Satyanand Stokes (Samuel Evans Stokes) | 1882–1946 | Horticulture and social reform | An American who settled at Kotgarh on the Sutlej below Kinnaur, introduced American apple varieties to the hills from 1916, and taught grafting and orcharding to local farmers. The Kinnauri apple economy that now dominates the region's cash income descends directly from that introduction; he later took Indian citizenship in effect, converted to Hinduism and was imprisoned during the freedom movement. |
Kinnaur & Spiti के वे लोग जिन्होंने यहाँ के इतिहास, कला, विज्ञान, खेल और सार्वजनिक जीवन को गढ़ा। (5)