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A person is called a Tibetan Muslim or in Tibetan

a “Lhasa-Khache”, sometimes, “Beoba-khache”- one who or whose family lived in Tibet. The mother tongue being Tibetan and is culturally integrated with the main Tibetan Buddhist society.

The TMs as a community can be classified into three sub-groups:

PHEOBA KHACHES OR THE TIBETAN MUSLIMS

The Singba-Khazis were originally soldiers of the defeated Zorawar Singh army (of Dogra-Tibet war, 1841) and taken prisoner by the Tibetan army, converted to Islam in Tibet and gradually found itself after marrying Tibetan wives, assimilating in the TM society.

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