Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.

*" polyandry is very widespread among the Sherpas.

* Fisher, James F., Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal, 1990.

Sherpas often use pressure cookers in base camp.

As a mountaineer, he is remembered for his heroic actions during the 1933 expedition to Mount Everest led by Hugh Ruttledge, in which he brought down 8 Sherpas from Camp 6 ( above 27, 000ft ) in a whiteout.

Pangboche is the Sherpas ' oldest village in Nepal.

The number of Sherpas immigrating to the West has also significantly increased in recent years, especially to the United States.

With a population of about 2500 Sherpas, New York City has the largest Sherpa Community in the U. S. A.

The 2001 Nepal Census recorded 154, 622 Sherpas in that country, of which 92. 83 % were Buddhists, 6. 26 % were Hindus, 0. 63 % were Christians and 0. 20 % were Bön.

According to Oppitz ( 1968 ), Sherpas migrated from the Kham region in eastern Tibet to Nepal within the last 300 – 400 years.

A recent Nepal Ethnographic Museum ( 2001 ) study postulated that Sherpas were not migrants who crossed the border of Tibet to Nepal.

Sherpas, like some other indigenous Kirat Nepalese tribes, would move from one place to another place of the Himalayan region as Alpine pastoralists and traders, since ancient times.

Sherpas are highly regarded as elite mountaineers and experts in their local terrain.

Sherpas are renowned in the international climbing and mountaineering community for their hardiness, expertise, and experience at high altitudes.

It has been speculated that a portion of the Sherpas ' climbing ability is the result of a genetic adaptation to living in high altitudes.

The Sherpas call Mount Everest Chomolungma and respect it as the " Mother of the World.

Today, the day-to-day Sherpas religious affairs are presided by lamas ( Buddhist spiritual leaders ) and other religious practitioners living in the villages.

Minority religions for Sherpas include Hinduism and Roman Catholicism.

Between the Vistula and the Bug Rivers, eastern border of Lesser Poland goes west of Leczna, but east of Krasnystaw and Szczebrzeszyn, both of which historically belong to Red Ruthenia.

Cities of Leżajsk, Rzeszów, Sanok, Brzozów, and Krosno do not belong to historical Lesser Poland, as they are part of Red Ruthenia ( Lwów Voivodeship ).

In the film, the Queen of Hearts delivers several of the Red Queen's statements, the most notable being based on her " all the ways about here belong to me ".

The Pawtucket Red Sox ( known colloquially as the PawSox ) are the minor league baseball Triple-A affiliates of the Boston Red Sox and belong to the International League, of which they are the current defending champions.

Several of the groups ( Geko, Gebar, Padaung ) belong to Kayan, a subgroup of Red Karen.

Karenni ( Red Karen ) and Kayan belong to the Sgaw branch.

15, 530, 000 individual and 220, 000 corporate members belong to the society, which operates 92 Red Cross hospitals and 79 blood centers all over the country.

With less than 250 individuals, of which more than 90 % belong to a single population, it is considered " critically endangered " and is included into the IUCN Red List.

which bear the symbols belong to a specific organization which is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement ( like the ICRC, the International Federation or the national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies ).

The other radio stations no longer belong to Red Lion Broadcasting.

All pure bred Gloucestershire Old Spots pigs belong to one of four color groups: Red, Black, Green and Blue, represented in the color chart to the left.

The majority of the indigenous population is Muslim and most of them belong to the Shafi School of the Sunni Sect.

They belong to the Smartha Sect.

They embraced Buddhism in the early part of the 17th century and belong to the Tibetan Buddhist sect known as the Gelugpa ( Virtuous Way ).

It was formerly thought to belong to the family Corvidae which includes the crows and jays and was called as the Hume's Ground Jay or Tibetan Ground Jay.

All in fact belong to unrelated families except for Chinese and Tibetan, which belong to the different top-level branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

The island is now owned by the Samyé Ling Buddhist Community, who belong to the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

The Tibetan and Yi languages belong to the Tibeto-Bruman language group and their ancestries can be traced back to an ancient tribe, the Di-Qiang.

The languages of both the Lahauli and Spiti Bhutia belong to the Tibetan family.

Jainism and Buddhism belong to the sramana tradition.

Various schools of Nichiren Buddhism give similar interpretation of the state of Bodhisattva, the path leading to Buddhahood, however SGI literature assigns this state also to non-Buddhist individuals of supreme compassion such as Jesus of Nazareth :“ I believe that both St Francis and Jesus belong in what we Buddhist call the Bodhisattva World ”.

As the level of technology progresses, so do the religious views of the WorldWeb populace, which is mentioned to adhere largely to a hybrid religion of Zen Buddhism and gnosticism, although a significant minority belong to cults such as the Church of the Final Atonement, which worships the Shrike and the retribution it believes the creature will bring upon society for humanity's past errors.

Most traditionalists, like Guénon himself, found a way in Sufism, and accordingly they embraced Islam, but others, like Marco Pallis, found a way in Buddhism, and still others, like James Cutsinger belong to the Greek Orthodox Church.

Most followers of Buddhism do not belong to structured congregations, or observe a definite ritual of adherence such as taking Refuge, making it difficult to accurately estimate the number of practitioners.

Most of these people belong to the Chakma, Chak, Marma, Tenchungya and the Khyang, who had been since time in memorial have practiced Buddhism.

They do not belong to the three treasures of Buddhism.

The various Abhidhamma philosophies of the various early schools have no agreement on doctrine and belong to the period of ' Divided Buddhism ' ( as opposed to Undivided Buddhism ).

There do, however, exist religions which allow followers to belong to other religions as well, most notably Buddhism.