Ladakh Nuns Association (LNA) is an association of

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Ladakh Ladakh () is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a Kashmir#Kashmir dispute, dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India an ...

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. It was founded in the year 1996 by Dr. Tsering Palmo with the aim of reviving and rejuvenating the tradition of nuns in Ladakh. It aims to raise the education level of the nuns and to give them a way to study and practice the Dharma. It was registered officially in the year 1997 under the

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Government (Under the Societies Regd. Act VI of 1998 941Regn. No. 2888-S of 1997).

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1996 establishments in India Buddhism in Ladakh Organisations based in Ladakh {{India-org-stub

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