the Bhoti language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution than now, in the year of the Dalai Lama’s ninetieth birthday celebrations and his sojourn in Ladakh, where the agitation demanding its inclusion has been underway since 1975.
The term Bhoti has its roots in the word “Bod”, meaning Tibet, implying that it is the language of Tibet. Since the language exists in several sovereign countries, Bhoti is the commonly accepted term rather than ‘Tibetan’.
Bhoti fulfils all the major preconditions identified by the Sitakant Mohapatra Committee constituted in 2003 for languages to be included in the 8th Schedule