Himalayas

the source, nature, and magnitude of a seismic event. Recently, there has been a discovery regarding the Ancient Temples. The temples that are in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, India fall within the Kashmir seismic gap of the Northwest Himalaya range. This area has the potential to produce earthquakes of a 7.5 magnitude or larger. As stated in the article, the type of damage sustained by temples clustered around two town regions suggests that the Chamba temples may have been affected…

Amrita Devi, a local women from Garhwala, Himalayas saw that the trees were being cut down at an alarming rate. “Chipko” in Hindi means to cling, reflecting the protesters main technique of throwing their arms around the tree trunks designated to be cut, and refusing to move.” As the villagers use…

Even, mythological beliefs are also connected with this mountain range. It is so huge in size and unexplored to common people that they used to think that it tends to the heaven and they had a strong belief that Gods live in Himalayas like Mount Kailash is the abode of lord Shiva. That concept they applied in temple making. They wanted to give it a formation of carved mountain as it is also considered to be an abode of God. Even the mountains again depict the upward gazing faces…

Such sites of cultural mobility where Ali discusses about ‘Bhairavi’ and ‘ghazal’ opens window to rich excavation from the exotic east. In the poem “The Season of the Plains” from his volume The Half Inch Himalayas Ali make mention of the ‘Banaras thumri-singers’. The verbal structure relates to an art form which defines the unique style originated in Banaras. The poet’s language here is referential of a region that relates to its musical tradition. For a western reader ‘Banaras thumri singers’…

One of the most prominent effects of climate change is the melting of ice. Glaciers and ice sheets are slow-moving assemblages of ice that cover approximately 10% of the world’s land area. By impacting the temperature and precipitation of a precise area, climate change affects the mass balance of glaciers and ice sheets. If the temperature exceeds a specific degree, glaciers and ice sheets will lose mass. One of the finest-documented examples of glacial retreat has been based upon Mount…

It’s also a lifeline to many of the Indians who live along it, the indians all depend on it for their daily needs. It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism. The Ganges river begins in the center of Himalayas and moves toward north. It brings people together on a cultural and social level, the rich and poor visit the Ganges to worship its divinity. Ganges river is sacred to Hindus because many believe that it is considered to be the extension of God and…

ives in the Denwood forest and open Woodland.The world distribution of Tawny Owls extends throughout Europe and North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria) eastwards to Iran and western Siberia. The Asiatic range covers north-western India, the Himalayas, southern China, Korea and Taiwan. In Europe the Tawny Owl is the commonest and most widespread owl, being absent only in Ireland, the extreme north of Scotland, northern Russia, northern Scandinavia, Iceland and some of the Mediterranean…

Buddhism originated in the Himalayas, India, from there it spread along trade routes in particular the silk road. Merchants and missionaries from India spread Buddhist beliefs along their travels. All before 600 CE Buddhism reached China, Japan, Korea, and South East Asia. 8. Confucianism…

. Tibet has a border of 3300 miles with India. But the Himalayas were a great barrier and as such cultural and military contacts between India and Tibet was minimal. The Tibetan's were however closely connected with the Chinese since ancient time, but at no time was Tibet a part of China. The current Tibetan culture has been formed since the time the Lama culture was established in Tibet. The Tibetan form of Buddhism came from India when the Bodhisattva left from South India to preach Buddhism…

Snow Leopards A race , graceful , and hungry beast is one way to describe a snow leopard , this breed of wild cats live mostly in the mountain ranges in Asia. In this paragraph I will be writing about the Snow Leopard and its diet , habitat , and features. It will include a topic sentence and supporting details. All five paragraphs will in include major details on the paragraph’s topic of choice. This is what I’ll be including in this essay about Snow Leopards. Snow…