Reru

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Reru
Reru (India)
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State : IndiaIndia India
Union Territory : Ladakh
District : Kargil
Location : 33 ° 20 ′  N , 76 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 20 ′  N , 76 ° 58 ′  E
Height : 3790 m
Area : 1.862 km²
Residents : 329 (2009)
Population density : 177 people / km²

Reru (also Raru ) is a small village in Tehsil Zanskar , part of the administrative center of Padum . Zanskar belongs to the Kargil district and is located in the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh .

geography

Reru is located on the west bank of the Lungnak River about 24 km south of Padum. The lungnak is sometimes also referred to as tsarap . The Padum-Reru-Road leads from Padum to Reru, which continues behind Reru as Reru-Darcha-Road to Darcha over the Shingo La . The entire street is also called Tsarap Road. It is passable for off-road vehicles from Padum to Reru . From Padum to Kargil there is a road used by buses and trucks. A further road from Reru to Darcha is planned.

The 5809 m high Cha rises east of Reru. Reru lies between the Zanska chain in the northeast and the main Himalayan chain in the southwest.

Village and population

Reru has about 20 houses and is mainly inhabited by Zanskaris of Tibetan origin, whose religion is Tibetan Buddhism . The native language of the villagers is Zanskari . The official language is Urdu .

In winter, from November to May, the village is cut off from the outside world by heavy snowfalls.

Reru and Mune are considered together. They belong to the local Lungnak region. The area of ​​Reru and Mune extends over 186.2 hectares. In 2009 there were 60 households with a total of 329 inhabitants.

Peas and barley are grown in Reru and Mune. Scarves are made by hand. Electricity is generated by photovoltaics and is available to private users for 12 hours in summer and 7 hours in winter.

religion

The vast majority of the residents of Reru are Buddhists, as are the residents of Zanskar in general. Reru (together with the whole of Zanskar) belongs to the purely Muslim district of Kargil. This leads to conflict. The Buddhist residents of Reru do not want to send their children to Muslim schools and Muslim teachers are not particularly welcome either. In general, the Buddhist residents of Zanskar feel that their interests are not well represented by the Muslim government of Kargil.

f1Georeferencing Map with all coordinates of the mentioned places: OSM | WikiMap

Mune Monastery

About 3 km north of Reru is the Mune Gompa ⊙ monastery (also: Deskit-Ling Gompa). The monastery was founded 300 years ago and is inhabited by 20 yellow hat monks. The monastery was initially located on the steep rock and was moved to the place next to the rock 200 years ago.

In the monastery there is a small prayer room with the Buddha Maitreya accompanied by Tsongkhapa and Avalokiteshvara . The prayer room also houses the Buddhist canon , two 500-year-old figures depicting Tsongkhapa, some thangkas and Tsa-Tsa tablets made from clay and ashes . Some of these objects were brought to Mune from Tibet by monks on donkeys in 1950. A gonkhang adjoins the prayer room . The Gonkhang contains the protector Mahakala as the main character . At the monastery there is a campsite and a simple guest house, which is looked after by the monastery.

Jamyang Ling School

There had been a school in Reru before, but its teachers were so poorly paid that they only showed up for work irregularly and finally stayed away completely. Only a pile of stones was left of the old school building in the middle of the village. The schools in Kargil District usually only teach Urdu and not Zanskari.

The illiteracy rate in the area was 90 to 95%.

In 1993, at the suggestion of Bernd Balaschus and his friends, the construction of the Jamyang Ling school in Reru began, together with the farmers of Reru and the Lungnak Youth Association. The farmers from Reru donated the land for the school premises and the monks of the Mune Gompa laid the foundation stone in a Buddhist ceremony.

The first school building ⊙ was inaugurated in 1994 and lessons could begin. Many children and adults from Reru and from all over the Lungnaktal wanted to learn to read and write in the new school. Therefore, the buildings had to be expanded and expanded. A residential building was built for the teachers. ⊙ In addition, a hostel ⊙ was built in which the children who come from far away can live. A stupa ⊙ was built about 400 m south of the school .

Your name "Jamyang Ling" Tibetan འཇམ་ དབྱངས་ གླིང ། Wylie 'jam dbyangs gling received the school from the Dalai Lama . "Jamyang Ling" means "place of gentle harmony" ( Tibetan འཇམ་ Wylie 'jam = gentle, Tibetan དབྱངས་ Wylie dbyangs = harmony, Tibetan གླིང་ Wylie gling = place). The name is derived from the Bodhisattva of wisdom Manjushri ( Tibetan འཇམ་ དཔལ་ དབྱངས ། Wylie 'jam dpal dbyangs ).

In 2018 there were 105 students in 8 classes and 4 preschool classes. They were taught by 10 teachers. 85 students lived in the hostel. 20 students came from Reru and Mune.

The school, its teachers and the hostel for the students are financed from donations. The teachers are partly refugees from Tibet , partly Indians from Manali , partly locals. Some teachers come from Germany or England for some voluntary months. At the school, Urdu is taught with Persian script , English with Latin script, Zanskari ( Old Tibetan) with Tibetan script and Hindi with Devanagari script . There are also classes in social studies (history and politics), geography, math, and science. Bernd Balaschus founded the Shambala e. V., who organizes trips and treks in the area and collects donations for the school.

The school in Reru only offers classes for grades 1 to 8. In order to obtain a university degree, students for grades 9 to 12 go to Jammu in the private school Kotwal National Institute of Teaching (KNIT) ⊙ by JL Kotwal. In Jammu, the Shambala e. V. bought and renovated a hostel ⊙ in which these students can live. Some of these students return to Reru during holidays or after completing their education to teach at the school.

Trek Lamayuru - Padum - Darcha

Reru is on the 2nd section of the Lamayuru ⊙ - Padum - Darcha trek from Padum to Darcha. From Padum ⊙ there are bus and truck connections to Kargil ⊙ . The trek follows the Tsarap River to Purne, from Purne to Kargyak the Kardyak Chu, after the Shingo La it follows the Jankar Nala to Darcha. The trek runs from Padum via Bardang ⊙ Monastery , Mune Gompa to Reru. From Reru it goes on to the camping site Pepula, Tsetang, Kyalbok ⊙ , Purne ⊙ , detour to Phuktal Monastery ⊙ , Jal (Yal) ⊙ , Kuru ⊙ , Tangze ⊙ , Table ⊙ , Kargyak ⊙ , Shingo La ⊙ , Ramjak-Camp, Chikka ⊙ , Darcha ⊙ . From Darcha there are bus and truck connections to Manali ⊙ .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reru at OSM ; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Reru at GoogleMap; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Jutta Mattausch: Ladakh and Zanskar , Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump GmbH, 1996, ISBN 3-89416-176-0 , pp. 335, 360, 361, 412 - 424
  4. ↑ a b Village Amenities. ( MS Excel ) censusindia.gov.in; accessed on December 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Zanskar Connection , magazine des Shambala e. V., edition 2018.
  6. ↑ a b c d e school, zc-2008 (PDF) at Shambhala; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b c school, zc-2003 (PDF) at Shambhala; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ School, zc-2015 (PDF) at Shambhala; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b school, zc-2016 (PDF) at Shambhala; accessed on December 2, 2018.
  10. ↑ KNIT homepage. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
  11. ↑ School, zc-2017_6 (PDF) at Shambhala; accessed on December 2, 2018 (PDF).