Not for the last time, my trip to Ladakh offers up an adjustment to my interior comfort zone.

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Ladakh is a showplace of monumental landscapes, but evoking a sense of the people's interior lives requires someone who gets it.

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Please take a look at the article (and at the Ladakh slide show on forbeslife magazine.com) and see if you don't agree.

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Of the three bits in India, Hindu-majority parts of Jammu, along with Ladakh, with many Buddhists, would, given a choice, probably stay in India.

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But Jammu has a Hindu majority and Ladakh a Buddhist one.

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In the monasteries and villages of the Ladakh region of India, Buddhist lamas (priests) chant sacred texts representing the spirit, philosophy and teachings of the Buddha.

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As we take off our shoes (there's a lot of shoe removal in Ladakh), prayers have already begun inside, chants of om at two dozen individual tempos.

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When I decided this spring to explore Ladakh, a rugged, otherworldly corner of India hidden in the Himalayas, I wanted a photographer who had been there before, literally and spiritually.

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The Shakti portion, in Ladakh typically the top, or "summer, " floor shared with the family prayer room, accommodates two to four guests in fine comfort but not-- intentionally--in dislocating international-style luxury.

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One morning in Nimoo I say jullay (hello) and smile at a lovely older woman--Ladakh boasts some of the most beautiful women in the world--who is heading out to work the dikes.

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You can get the full Ladakh time-travel effect by waking up in a place like Nimoo, a whitewashed village perched along an ancient trade road below the confluence of the Zanskar and Indus rivers.

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