Dina agama Hindu, Himalaya geus personified salaku raja sadaya Gunung <unk> "Giriraj Himavat", bapa Ganga jeung Parvati (bentuk Adi Shakti Durga).A number of Vajrayana Buddhist sites are situated in the Himalaya, in Tibet, Bhutan and in the Indian regions of Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Spiti and Darjeeling. Aya leuwih ti 6.000 biara di Tibet, kaasup tempat tinggal ti Dalai Lama. Bhutan, Sikkim jeung Ladakh ogé dotted jeung loba biara. The Muslim Tibét boga masjid sorangan di Lhasa jeung Shigatse. Patarosan: Sabaraha biara aya di Tibet?
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