Image title: A Sherpa woman

This photograph depicts “a Sherpa woman”.

The text in Devanagari reads:

शेर्पा युवती

Transliteration (IAST):

śerpā mahilā.

Plain text (initially IAST, brackets indicate Hunterian):

sherpa mahila.

Gallery information:

The Sherpa people refers to one of the indigenous ethnic group from Nepal (the Himalayan regions) who migrated out of Tibet as early as the 13th century. Their religion is Tibetan Buddhism (particularly Nyingma) and they worship mountains as Gods pr protector deities. Sherpas speak Sino-Tibetan which represents a dialect of Tibetan.