written and photographed by Carl Duncan
Vol. 9 No. 6
“Jullay! Jullay!” We hear it everywhere, from the summits of breathtaking passes to the giant prayer wheels in Leh. It’s a word of friendly welcome in Ladakh, or Little Tibet, a region of continuous Tibetan Buddhism culture dating back more than 1,000 years. It’s an image of Tibetan culture that is, as one guidebook put it, “perhaps now more appropriate to Ladakh than to Tibet itself.”