GILGIT

BEAUTIFUL HILL STATION OF PAKISTAN (MURREE)

 Gilgit

The Gilgit-Baltistan region is understood across the world for its exceptional beauty, distinctive culture, and hospitable individuals.

Gilgit has multiple hill stations that you simply will visit along with your friends and family. a number of these hill stations are:

Passu
Gojal higher Hunza
Shukargah
Ishkoman
Chillum

Gilgit-Baltistan and its hill stations square measure good for sporting individuals. you'll be able to hike, paraglide and camp underneath the sky. Trust me, it'll be one of the foremost unforgettable events of your life.

Gilgit (/ˈɡɪlɡɪt/; Shina: گلیت; Urdu: گلگت IPA: [ˈɡɪlɡɪt]) is that the capital town of Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan. the town is found in a very broad vale close to the confluence of the Gilgit stream and Hunza stream, and maybe a major traveler destination in Pakistan, serving as a hub for trekking and climb expeditions within the mountain chain range of mountains.

Gilgit was once a serious center for Buddhism; it had been a vital stop on the traditional trade route, and nowadays is a serious junction on the mountain chain main road with road connections to China likewise because of the Pakistani cities of Skardu, Chitral, Peshawar, and national capital. Currently, it is a frontier station for the native social group areas. The city's economic activity is especially targeted at agriculture, with wheat, maize, and barley because of the mainly-produced crops.[3]

Etymology

The city's ancient name was Sargin, later to be referred to as Gilt, and it's still mentioned as Gilit or Sargin-Gilit by the native individuals. The native Khowar and Wakhi-speaking individuals talk over with the town as Gilt, and in Burushaski, it's known as getting.[4]

Early history

Brogpas trace their settlement from Gilgit into the fertile villages of Ladakh through a fashionable corpus of hymns, songs, and traditional knowledge that are passed down through generations.[5] The Dards and Shinas seem in several of the previous Pauranic lists of individuals UN agency lived within the region, with the previous conjointly mentioned in Ptolemy's accounts[6] of the region.

Buddhist era

Gilgit was a vital town on the trade route, on that Buddhism was unfold from South Asia to the remainder of Asia. it's thought of as a Buddhism passageway from that several Chinese monks came to Cashmere to find out and preach Buddhism.[7] 2 notable Chinese Buddhist pilgrims, Faxian and Xuanzang, traversed Gilgit per their accounts.

According to Chinese records, between the 600s and therefore the 700s, the town was ruled by a Buddhist sept mentioned as very little Balur or Lesser Bolü (Chinese: 小勃律).[9] they're believed to be the Patola Shahis sept mentioned in a very script inscription,[10] and square measure devout adherents of Vajrayana Buddhism.[11]

In the mid-600s, Gilgit came underneath Chinese suzerainty when the autumn of Western Turkic Khaganate because of Tang military campaigns within the region. within the late 600s atomic number 58, the rising Tibetan Empire wrestled management of the region from the Chinese. However, visaged with the growing influence of the Umayyad Caliphate and so the Abbasid Caliphate to the west, the Tibetans were forced to ally themselves with the Moslem caliphates. The region was then contested by Chinese and Tibetan forces, and their various liegeman states, till the mid-700s. Chinese records of the region lasted till the late 700s during which era the Tang's western military operation was weakened because of the An Lushan Rebellion.[12]

The management of the region was left to the Tibetan Empire. They mentioned the region as Bruzha, a name that's in step with the ethnonym "Burusho" used nowadays. Tibetan management of the region lasted till the late-800s atomic number 58.[13]

Gilgit manuscripts

This corpus of manuscripts was discovered in 1931 in Gilgit, containing several Buddhist texts like four sutras from the Buddhist canon, as well as the notable Lotus Sanskrit literature. The manuscripts were written on birch bark in the Buddhist style of Indo-Aryan within the Sharada script. They cowl a large variety of themes like tonometry, folk tales, philosophy, medicine, and several other connected areas of life and knowledge.[14]

The Gilgit manuscripts[15] square measure enclosed within the United Nations agency Memory of the planet register.[16] they're among the oldest manuscripts in the world, and therefore the oldest manuscript assortment extant in Pakistan,[15] having major significance within the areas of Buddhist studies and therefore the evolution of Asian and Sanskrit literature. The manuscripts square measure believed to own been written within the fifth to sixth centuries AD, tho' some a lot of manuscripts were discovered within the succeeding centuries, that were conjointly classified as Gilgit manuscripts.

Many of the initial manuscripts from Gilgit may be found within the National Archives of India and therefore the Pratap Singh deposit in Srinagar. 2 manuscripts were collected by the specialist Sir Aurel Stein square measure within the British Library in London.[17] They embody a rare paper version of the Lotus Sanskrit literature.

As of half-dozen October 2014, one supply claims that the part of the gathering deposited at the Sri Pratap Singh deposit in Srinagar was irrecoverably destroyed throughout the 2014 India–Pakistan floods.[18]