The Ladakh Buddhist Association Leh Ladakh, is a non-political, socio-religious organization essentially set up to develop and promote a social structure based on the Buddha’s teachings of non-violence, peaceful co-existence, harmonious relationship with nature and environment, logical and ethical reasoning in dealing with every problem of life to focus on human development as a means of societal transformation.
The Buddhists of Ladakh, having been inspired and guided by the sublime Dharma and concerned about the future development of the society as a resilient, progressive, adaptive and forward looking entity, embedded in our social/ cultural ethos, had solemnly resolved to organize our society into a powerful unit for effective modern development through adherence to Buddhist way of life for resilience, tolerance, peaceful co-existence, appropriate social transformation and human development. The Ladakh Buddhist Association, envisioned, conceived and founded by our enlightened elders in 1932, is now the apex social institution guided by a constitution of its own working tirelessly to keep pace with time and to address fresh challenges for the community.
As the conditions and dynamics in Ladakh and the country have undergone huge changes over the past 7 decades, the challenges to the Buddhist community of Ladakh have also increased manifold over the period.