The webpage ‘We Are Sherpa’ has been prepared in master plan of my elder brother Ngima Dendi. We are confident that this website will be fruitful to all the people who are interested in religion, language, script, culture, tradition and customs and the development and social change of Sherpa community including Students, Professors, and researchers. We are hopeful that it will be beneficial to researchers and scholars area and consultancy service. This website is mainly focused in the concept, principles, sample, explanation and interpretation of experience and practice of Sherpa people. There may be numerous mistakes in this website due to internal and external factors. We hope our readers will suggest us for further improvements. It may be difficult to find all the matters one wishes to find. We promise to improve in this aspect in the next publication. First of all I am grateful to respected brother Ngima Dendi for taking initiative by providing articles in spite of his busy schedule and I am further indebted to him as he doesn’t feel any difficulty to help us anytime. Similarly we are thankful to all the well-wishers friends and teachers who cooperated with us.
Our motto is to protect and promote Sherpa language and Sherpa community. We aspire to let opportunity to our young and future generation to study and research the historical legacy and assets of our ancestors and protect and promote them in turn for their coming generations again. I will try to cover almost all matters related to Sherpa and try to keep in this site, so that the coming generation won’t have problem of identity.
Our site will focus on in the following areas.
1. The origin of Sherpa people
2. The location from where our ancestors came
3. How they live in the SoluKhumbu and its periphery
4. The profession our ancestors did
5. Lifestyle of our ancestors
6. Their cuisine in the past
7. Their special cuisine
8. Differences in the custom of female, male, and Lama
9. Ornaments, Kin line, caste and sub caste, religion, language, script, festivals, culture and tradition of Sherpa people
10. History of Sherpa’s etymology
11. Ancestors of Sherpa
12. Sherpa’s physical feature and nature
13. History of their living migration
14. Beginning of our language and script
15. Features of classical books on grammar, history, philosophy and Buddhism that are translated in Tibetan language and the preaching of Buddha (kagyur)
16. The four sects of Buddhism and Sherpa’s place in them
17. Sherpa’s faith and belief in Buddhism
18. Festivals and festivities of Sherpa
19. New year of Sherpa: Loshar
20. Profession and livelihood of Sherpa
21. Sherpa’s way of eating, sitting, walking and sleeping
22. From birth rite to death rite of Sherpa
23. “Trikal” of Sherpa
24. Language culture and tradition of Sherpa as necessity of today Keeping all these things in the center, we have thought to exchange and communities, which are inside the nation and outside the nation. If we Sherpa’s couldn’t take any solid step to promote our language, in no time we will face great harm.
Thukje Che.
Our motto is to protect and promote Sherpa language and Sherpa community. We aspire to let opportunity to our young and future generation to study and research the historical legacy and assets of our ancestors and protect and promote them in turn for their coming generations again. I will try to cover almost all matters related to Sherpa and try to keep in this site, so that the coming generation won’t have problem of identity.
Our site will focus on in the following areas.
1. The origin of Sherpa people
2. The location from where our ancestors came
3. How they live in the SoluKhumbu and its periphery
4. The profession our ancestors did
5. Lifestyle of our ancestors
6. Their cuisine in the past
7. Their special cuisine
8. Differences in the custom of female, male, and Lama
9. Ornaments, Kin line, caste and sub caste, religion, language, script, festivals, culture and tradition of Sherpa people
10. History of Sherpa’s etymology
11. Ancestors of Sherpa
12. Sherpa’s physical feature and nature
13. History of their living migration
14. Beginning of our language and script
15. Features of classical books on grammar, history, philosophy and Buddhism that are translated in Tibetan language and the preaching of Buddha (kagyur)
16. The four sects of Buddhism and Sherpa’s place in them
17. Sherpa’s faith and belief in Buddhism
18. Festivals and festivities of Sherpa
19. New year of Sherpa: Loshar
20. Profession and livelihood of Sherpa
21. Sherpa’s way of eating, sitting, walking and sleeping
22. From birth rite to death rite of Sherpa
23. “Trikal” of Sherpa
24. Language culture and tradition of Sherpa as necessity of today Keeping all these things in the center, we have thought to exchange and communities, which are inside the nation and outside the nation. If we Sherpa’s couldn’t take any solid step to promote our language, in no time we will face great harm.
Thukje Che.