I understand it . The  Jirels , native people of Jiri, are ethnically related to the Sherpas. In India, Sherpas also inhabit the towns of  Darjeeling  and  Kalimpong  and the Indian state of  Sikkim . The 2001 Nepal Census recorded 154,622 Sherpas in that country, of which 92.83% were Buddhists, 6.26% were