Tikse monastery, Leh has for centuries been an important stopover on trade routes along the Indus Valley between Tibet to the ea

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Tikse monastery, Leh has for centuries been an important stopover on trade routes along the Indus Valley between Tibet to the east, Kashmir to the west and also between India and China. The main goods carried were salt, grain, pashm or cashmere wool, charas or cannabis resin from the Tarim Basin, indigo, silk yarn and Banaras brocade.

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