Un’opera fondamentale è quella pubblicata da John Crook and Henry Osmaston, Himalayan Buddhist villages, Environments, resources, Society and Reli-gious Life. Con il contributo di numerosi specialisti, lo studio socioeconomico dell’insediamento di sTongde in Zanskar ha permesso di conoscere la civiltà tibetana in una zona dove essa è ancora viva e prospera.

A "monumental work of co-operative scholarship by a team of 17 scholars from a dozen different disciplines. Although largely focussed on Zanskar, (...) where most of the fieldwork was done, most of it in the early 1980s before the road over the Pensi-la had brought many changes, the findings resonate in almost every department of Ladakh studies."
Janet Rizvi