Brokpa
Ethnic group in Ladakh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Brokpa, Drokpa, Dard and Shin (schedule Tribe of India) or the Brokpa language and people of eastern Bhutan.
The Brokpa (Tibetan: འབྲོག་པ་, Wylie: ’brog pa, THL: drok pa), sometimes referred to as Minaro, are a small ethnic group mostly found in the union territory of Ladakh, India around the villages of Dha and Hanu. Some of the community are also located across the Line of Control in Baltistan in the villages around Ganokh. They speak an Indo-Aryan language called Brokskat.[3] The Brokpa are mostly Vajrayana Buddhist while some are Muslim.[4]