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Happy 116 National Day••••••••••••••••••••••••Long reign the Wangchuck Dyansty, in the frame is the ‘’Three Jewel of Pas...
17/12/2023

Happy 116 National Day
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Long reign the Wangchuck Dyansty, in the frame is the ‘’Three Jewel of Past, Present & Emerging’’🙏🫡🙂

Finally Karma meets Pema, love unfolds the path.
22/09/2021

Finally Karma meets Pema, love unfolds the path.

Gangtey, Wangdue, 2016 — Black-necked crane Karma was found injured. Injuries to his wing have left him unable to fly. For over two years, Karma has lived in a small shed near the BNC visitor centre in the Phobjikha valley. A mirror was placed inside the shed to give him the illusion of company.

One step closer to ease and connect the travellers across the globe.
14/02/2020

One step closer to ease and connect the travellers across the globe.

Compassion, Stupa & Khenlopchoe Sum•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) prom...
23/01/2020

Compassion, Stupa & Khenlopchoe Sum
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Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) promised Amitabha Bhuddha that he want to remove the sufferings of all sentient beings. After his promise, he meditated for 100 million aeona. After his meditation he thought that there is no more sufferings but later realised that less than one quarter has been sent to pureland and more than three quarter is still suffering. Because of his compassion for all sentient beings, his tears dropped. Immediately the tears grew two god princess named Gang Cheng and Gang Chuung. Gang Chuung went to the garden of the god Level to pick flowers. This broke the God law and she was sent down to the human level. Immediately she was born as Jazima ( Chicken Keeper) in Nepal. Jazima has three husbands. With each husband she gave birth to one son. The mother wanted to build stupas. The three son asked the mother, " what is stupa?". The mother explained that a stupa is the heart of many buddhas. It is also place for all sentient beings to offer and pray. She also said that her yidam is making stupa. (Yi means mind and dam means choice). Stupa blessings will bring world peace and clearing of four element obstacles. Prayer and circumambulations if countinously done will enable one to reach pureland. With the help of the three sons, one elephant, one donkey and one girl helper (cook) the stupa was completed in Seven years. As a result of this great merit, the eldest son was born as Manjusheriye reincarnate, King Tresong Dedtsen of Tibet. The second brother was born in Mendri (Himalaya) as Khenchen Boddhisato, who has great knowledge. The third brother was lotus-born as Padmasambhava, in Udinaya lake. The mother passed away four years later before the completion of the stupa. She was born in Pureland. The female helper also reached Pureland in one lifetime. Since the three sons want to all help sentient beings they chose to reincarnate in this world.

the Blood Stain of 3rd Namkhai Nyingpo••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••The third reincarnation of Nam...
21/01/2020

the Blood Stain of 3rd Namkhai Nyingpo
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The third reincarnation of Namkhai Ningpo, Jamphel Ngawang Drukdra was poisoned in Chali, he is believed to have passed away near this stream and his disciples washed his body in the stream and the blood oozed from his body and the blood stains is still seen to these days. It is sad to learn the sad course of history, but equally happy that the present 7th Namkhai Nyingpo chose to be born in Bhutan to benefit the people.

Long Live His Holiness and Jangter tradition.

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12/01/2020

The Life Cycle
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25/12/2019
25/12/2019

Spiritual Healing...

21/12/2019

Drupchen, Invoking Vajrakilaya blessing
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Drupchen (Tib. གྲུབ་ཆེན་, Wyl. sgrub chen) — literally “vast accomplishment,” is a form of intensive group practice that epitomizes the depth, power, and precision of the Vajrayana, drawing together the entire range of its skilful methods—mystical, ritual, and artistic—and including: the creation of the mandala house; the complete sadhanapractice with visualization, mudra, chant, and music; continuous day and night practice of mantra; the creation of tormas and offerings, with sacred substances and precious relics; the tsok feast; the sacred dance of cham; as well as the construction of the sand mandala. All blend to create the transcendent environment of the pure realm of the deity and awaken, for all those taking part, the pure perception of this world as a sacred realm.
So it is said that several days participating in a drupchen can yield the same results as years of solitary retreat, and great contemporary masters such as Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche have made a point of encouraging and reviving the practice of drupchen, because of its power of transformation in this degenerate age.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche says: "A drubpa chenpo, a drupchen, requires all kinds of details. For example, you have to do six sessions, you must have a certain number of yogis and yoginis and the sound of the mantra must never be interrupted. If there’s any drupchen happening, one must try to participate. Just as we should participate in tsok offerings again and again, it is really good to participate in a drupchen as a Vajrayana practitioner again and again. It is believed that just going to one drupchen will take care of all samaya breakages instantly. Where there is no drupchen, one should try to organize one. "

20/12/2019

Take a ride on the wing of the Dragon.
Domesticflight

17/12/2019

Happy 112th National Day 🇧🇹
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May the sun of peace and prosperity always shine in Bhutan.

12/12/2019

Band of Local Artist
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A means to calm and heal the restless soul through music...

Why Bhutan?
11/12/2019

Why Bhutan?

Welcome to the “Land of the Thunder Dragon.”

30/11/2019

A Sincere Wish
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpochoe said, " don't stop anyone who wants to see me".

24/10/2019

Lonley Planet review Bhutan as a top destionation to travel in 2020...

Limitation has a boundary. Such a disgrace.
17/10/2019

Limitation has a boundary.
Such a disgrace.

Breaking: The regional tourist in this picture standing on a Chorten in Dochula has been identified and detained by the RBP.
This highly disrespectful action has caused much outrage in the country.

Update: The tourist has been allowed to stay in his hotel for now but the RBP is taking his passport and an assurance from the group leader. RBP will start the investigation from tomorrow.

Update on 18th Oct: The tourist in the biker outfit is Abhijit Ratan Hajare from the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Additional update: He has been let go after writing an apology letter to the RBP and citing ignorance.

Touching the lives...
12/10/2019

Touching the lives...

A guide to how much it costs to travel to Bhutan, and if Bhutan is worth $250 per day. A complete overview of the cost of tourism in Bhutan.

The spirit of spirituality...
01/10/2019

The spirit of spirituality...

Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day)Thrue bab marks the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the harvest season in Bhutan. O...
24/09/2019

Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day)

Thrue bab marks the end of the monsoon and the beginning of the harvest season in Bhutan. On this day, Buddhist astrologers predict the falling of celestial rain of ablution on a certain time at which taking bath and shower is believed to cleanse the defilements. Besides purification through washing, Bhutanese observe the day by spending fun time with families friends eating together and playing traditional sports such as archery and khuru (dart).

ཁྲུས་བབས།
ཁྲུས་བབས་ཀྱི་ཉིནམ་འདི་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་དུས་ཚོད་རྫོགས་ཏེ་ ལོ་ཐོག་བསྡུ་ནིའི་དུས་ཚོད་ འགོ་བཙུགས་པའི་ ཉིནམ་ཅིག་ཨིན། དེ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ རྩིས་ལས་ཐོན་པའི་དུས་ཚོན་ཁར་ གནམ་ཁ་ལས་མར་སྒྲིབ་པ་དག་བྱེད་ ལྷའི་ཁྲུས་ཆུ་འབབ་ནིཨིན་པའི་ཡིད་ཆེས་ཐོག་ ཉིནམ་དེ་ཁར་ ཁྲུས་གསོལ་ཞུ་ནི་དང་ གཟུགས་འཁྱུ་བ་ཅིན་ རང་སོའི་རྐྱེན་དང་ བར་ཆད་ཚུ་ སེལ་ཚུགས་པའི་དགོས་པ་ཚུ་ནང་པའི་རིག་གཞུང་ཚུ་ལས་ཐོནམ་ཨིན་མས། ཉིནམ་འདི་བརྩི་སྲུང་གི་དོན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཟས་ཞིམ་ཚུ་བཟའ་སྟེ་ རང་ལུགས་ཀྱི་རྩེདམོ་ མདའ་དང་ ཁུ་རུ་ཚུ་ རྩེད་ཐོག་ལས་ བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུཝ་ཨིན།

- འབྲུག་གཟའ་སྐར

10/09/2019

A warm greetings from the Kingdom of 🇧🇹

The First sermon of the Lord Buddha One of the most sacred days in the Buddhist calendar, the day honours Lord Buddha’s ...
04/08/2019

The First sermon of the Lord Buddha

One of the most sacred days in the Buddhist calendar, the day honours Lord Buddha’s first sermon at Deer Park in Sarnath, India. On this day Buddha for the first time spoke on the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths to five monks, which is known as the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma (dharmachakra).
In Bhutan, the day is observed as “Drukpa Tshe Zhi”, which translates as the fourth day of the sixth month of the Bhutanese calendar.

འབྲུག་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་་༤ ལུ་ བདེན་པ་བཞིའི་ ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན།

ཉིནམ་འདི་ཁར་ སྟོན་པ་ཐུབ་པའི་དབང་པོ་གིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ས་གནས་ ཝ་ར་ཎཱ་སི་ལུ་ འཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་ལུ་ ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་དང་ བཀའ་བདེན་པ་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་གནང་ཡོད་པའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིན། འབྲུག་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཉིནམ་དེ་ འབྲུག་པ་ཚེས་༤ ཟེར་ ཞུཝ་ཨིནམད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཉིནམ་དེ་ ལོ་ཨ་རྟག་ར་ ཟླཝ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ ཕོག་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན།

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A cry on fast melting glaciers by the former prime minsiter of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay.
29/07/2019

A cry on fast melting glaciers by the former prime minsiter of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay.

The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is the world's third-largest repository of ice, after the North and South Poles -- and if current melting rates continue, two-thirds of its glaciers could be gone by the end of this century. What will happen if we let them melt away? Environmentalist and former Prime M...

A Bhutanese traveled across the oceans and mountains to greet his Master. Happy reading...
21/07/2019

A Bhutanese traveled across the oceans and mountains to greet his Master.
Happy reading...

Dear friends near and far, I hope this message finds you healthy and happy and more so flourishing in your Dharma practice. This month, I would like to share with you a …

Why you should celebrate 'Duchen Nga Zom' tomorrow?The 15th day of 4th month according to the Bhutanese lunar calender i...
16/06/2019

Why you should celebrate 'Duchen Nga Zom' tomorrow?

The 15th day of 4th month according to the Bhutanese lunar calender is celebrated to mark the five major event of Buddha's life by the entire Buddhist world.

The full moon day that marks the five major events is known as Duchen Nga Zom. Duchen means 'great occasion' and Nga for Five and Zom stands for coincide".

The five major events are; Buddha is believed to have been conceived, born, overcame the evil forces, attained enlightenment and passed away into parinirvana on this great day.

A simple prayer recitation and good action will be multiplied by thousand time unlike any other days. Please avoid meat and alcohol and keep your mind focused with good intentions atleast for a day tomorrow.

Happy Duechen Nga Zom to my Buddhist friends around the world.

THE PURPOSE OF THE EIGHT AUSPICIOUS OFFERING BOWLS(And the Mudras/Hand Gestures of Eight Outer Offerings shown below)Dur...
27/05/2019

THE PURPOSE OF THE EIGHT AUSPICIOUS OFFERING BOWLS
(And the Mudras/Hand Gestures of Eight Outer Offerings shown below)

During ancient times in India, devoted Buddhist households would make offerings to the Buddha, monks and nuns as part of their daily customs. In general, offerings are considered as an antidote to greed and attachment. Offering to the Buddha and his disciples (usually in the morning before one eats) demonstrates the devotee’s selfless dedication to his/her Bodhisattva vows and acts as a way to express gratitude and respect for the Buddha.
Anything can be offered, as long as it is pleasing to the five senses. Hence, the offerings usually include clean water for drinking and bathing, flowers, incense, light or lamp, perfume and music. These offerings eventually became known as the Eight Auspicious Offerings and represents the coming forth of the Buddha’s precious teachings into the world.
Typically, there are seven offering bowls and one light on a Tibetan Buddhist altar. They are arranged on the altar in a straight line close together. Each offering has a symbolic meaning and purpose that corresponds to a significant Buddhist prayer called the Seven Limb Puja.

1. First Offering Bowl – Water for Drinking | ARGHAM

Water has eight qualities, which are crystal clarity, coolness, sweetness, lightness, softness, freedom from impurities, soothing to the stomach and makes the throat clear and free. As such, water is offered to the Buddha for drinking and to cleanse his mouth or face. This offering symbolizes the auspicious results of all virtuous causes and conditions. In the Seven Limb Puja, it represents Homage and Prostration.

2. Second Offering Bowl – Water for Bathing | PADHYAM

Pure and clean water is offered to the Buddha for bathing. Usually, the water is scented with sandalwood, and is used to bathe the feet. This offering symbolizes purification of our negative karma and obscuration. In the Seven Limb Puja it represents Offering.

3. Third Offering Bowl – Flowers | PUSHPE

All types of flowers can be offered, including medicinal flowers, fruits and grains. The offering of flowers symbolizes the beauty and flowering of Enlightenment and signifies the opening of one’s heart. In the Seven Limb Puja, the flower represents Confession.

4. Fourth Offering Bowl – Incense | DHUPE

Incense emits a beautiful scent. When offered to the Buddha, it symbolizes morality, ethics and discipline which are the basic causes and conditions from which pure enlightened qualities are cultivated. In the Seven Limb Puja, incense represents Rejoicing in all the virtue in the world.

5. Fifth Offering Bowl – Light | ALOKHE

This light used for offering comes in different forms, including all natural light, such as the sun, moon and stars, as well as all types of man-made forms of light such as lamps and candles. This offering symbolizes the dispelling of all darkness of the mind and all ignorance. In the Seven Limb Puja, light represents Requesting the Buddha to always offer Dharma teaching.

6. Sixth Offering Bowl – Perfume | GENDHE

All types of beautiful fragrance or perfume that one can smell or put on the body can be used for this offering. Perfume is offered to the Buddha’s mind and symbolizes the perseverance and joyful effort that is the heart of Enlightenment. Without perseverance, all the other enlightened qualities could not arise in the mind. In the Seven Limb Puja, the perfume represents Beseeching the Buddha to remain in the world.

7. Seventh Offering Bowl – Celestial Food | NEVIDHYA

Excellent, delicious food of all kinds and various tastes is offered to the Three Jewels. This offering symbolizes the clear and stable mind of Samadhi, or meditative absorption. In the Seven Limb Puja, food represents Dedication of all merit for the benefit of all sentient beings.

8. Eighth Offering Bowl – Music | SHABTA

Musical instruments such as cymbals, bells, lutes, and string instruments that create beautiful sound is offered to the ears of the Buddha. Sound symbolizes the Buddha’s Wisdom nature and the extraordinary Compassion that arises naturally from the Wisdom mind. In the Seven Limb Puja, it is said that there is no eighth bowl for sound because sound is non-visual.

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20/05/2019

UNWTO Commission Meeting to be held in Thimphu, Bhutan from 3rd - 5th May, 2019. A rare opportunity to host such a grand event in Bhutan.

UN Tourism is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of

Why you should visit Pangbisa Ugyen Guru Lhakhang(Temple)Terton Sherab Mebar came to Bhutan from Kham (Tibet) in the 15t...
19/05/2019

Why you should visit Pangbisa Ugyen Guru Lhakhang(Temple)

Terton Sherab Mebar came to Bhutan from Kham (Tibet) in the 15th century.
Terton Sherab Mebar approached Bhutan through the Jomolhari, where he discovered his first treasure. He continued to Bumthang through Baylangdra in Wangdue. Once in Bumthang he had to look for a girl called Pema Chuki of certain age to accompany him in discovering certain treasure but that triggered suspicion in the region. The ruler in Bumthang too had his eye on the same girl.

The suspicious ruler demanded Terton to prove himself to the people Bumthang by discovering treasure from Mebar Tsho. Terton resisted, saying that the time hadn’t come for the Mebar Tsho treasures to be discovered. He told them that three generations later his own reincarnation would come to discover treasures from the lake. This added more suspicion and he had to prove himself by going to the Mebar Tsho with burning lamp in his hand. He came out with two chests of treasures only to be returned back to the lake to be rediscovered generations later by rightful Terton, Pema Lingpa.

He, however couldn’t marry Pema Chuki and therefore couldn’t discovered the treasure he was destined to do in the company of the prophesied khandro. This was the beginning of many events that were going to go wrong in his life, and ultimately cost him his life.

The next failure happened in Pasakha where he was prophesied to discover cave of gold, silver and salt. When he meditated near the area a landslide occurred and open the cave door to endless resources but on his way to the cave he met three people carrying empty baskets, which was considered very ominous. Everything in the cave turned into rock and sand.

He finally reached Pangpisa, through Sombaykha and Jabana Haa valley, the ultimate destination to which he was directed. It was here that he had to wait till the age of 25 to be able to head to Nub Tshonaparta to reveal the world of treasure wealth that could sustain our country throughout times to come. It was prophesied that he would visit the lake seven times in his lifetime. But as restless as he was, and because of the growing suspicion even in Pangpisa he had to leave for Nub Tshonapatra earlier than prophesized to reestablish himself.

Above Ha valley there is a lake called Nuptshonapatra. From the bed of that lake Terton Sherab Mebar took out a trumpet, a drum, and a pair of cymbals by putting entire water of the lake into his mouth through his miraculous powers.

Along with those items he also found a golden pillar which Terton wants to offer to Paro Dzong when the time of building the dzong by Zhabdrung. He asked some carpenters to cut out for him and as a reward the carpenters were asked to take the shavings of the pillar.

The carpenters became very greedy and started cutting the pillar in such a way that whole chunks dropped off from it. Watching their greediness Terton signaled with his head and warned them to stop as he could not talk but the carpenter paid no heed and took out more shavings of gold from the Pillar.

The Terton ultimately could not hold anymore, so he opened his mouth and said not to do that.

Instantly, the lake flowed down from his mouth into its rightful place and drowned the carpenters.

The lake then ran after Terton. He threw away the drum while he tried to escape from it. But the lake followed in hot pursuit. Like he did with the drum, the Terton slowed down the onward rush of the lake by flinging before it, the drumstick, the trumpet, and a part of cymbal; and as he kept running, he eventually reached the Labdza of Tshellutsho.

There, Chungdue appeared in person, and negotiated an agreement of peace whereby, it is said, the Terton and his followers should never set foot in Ha Shogona. In return, the deity of the lake was forbidden from crossing Labdza. Thus the followers of Terton of Paro Pangmisa do not have any relationship with the people of Ha Shogona.

After reaching Pangbisa, the Terton sat down on a stone and meditated. The main statue of Guru Rinpoche in the Ugyen Guru lhakhang at Pangbisa was built on the very same stone where he meditated.

This Guru Rinpoche statue is also a very special statue since it talked once during construction.

Legend has it that the sculptor finished making the Guru Rinpoche's body but failed to come with head despite countless attempt.

They felt defeated when there was a knock on the gate. The chief sculptor sent his assistant to open the door who informed him about three women with a clay Guru’s head. The chief wanted to see if the head fitted their statue, so asked his assistant to bring the head.

He put the clay head on the statue and it perfectly fitted. So he again asked his assistant to bring the women in so that he can pay but the women were nowhere to be found. The three women were believed to the Khadroms.

But the chief sculptor found out that the head was bended while trying, so he tried to take the head out and fix it well. No matter how hard he tried, he failed. At that time, the Guru statue spoke and told him that he is comfortable in that position.

The Terton Sherab Mebar went against the prophecy one too many times and compromised the whole divine mission he had been assigned, his mission on earth seemed to have been terminated prematurely. He died in his thirties leaving behind many unfinished works. He was supposed to visit Nub Tshonapatra seven times and discover treasures that will make our country rich in all times to come, but his first untimely attempt jeopardized everything.

Terton Sherab Mebar was living in Pangpisa after that life-threatening mission to Nub Tshonapatra, when he called to attend a big event in Baylangdra, Wangdue. As usual he summoned the nine households in Pangpisa and asked them to bring him a stone that could fit in his palm. He was presented with a broken piece of stone. He asked if the stone was already in that shape or did the people break it into that shape. When he was told that the stone was a freshly broken piece he took it as a bad sign. He told his nine patrons that the signs told him that he might not return alive from Wangdue and therefore instructed them to bring his body back to Pangpisa.

He squeezed the stone with his bare hands like it were wet clay and left his handprint on the stone as blessing to the people there. This stone with his handprint was one among many such stones he left behind from different occasions. In fact, every household in Pangpisa owned one each besides the six that were in the temple. One was a chunk of gold he took from Pasakha, during his failed mission of unearthing endless supply of gold, silver and salt.

As foreseen, Terton Sherab Mebar died in Baylangdra, Wangude and message reached Pangpisa. Group of men went there to claim Lam’s kudung (body) as wished by lam himself but people in Baylangdra refused to give away. They said, it was lam’s wish to die in their village and therefore the body must rest there.

Disappointed patrons of Pangpisa ever since spied on Baylangdra. It was during the harvest season that year that every able man from the village went on their annual alms seeking event. The temple in which the kudung was preserved was guarded by a lame gomchen who couldn’t go with the rest. Men from Pangpisa waited for this moment and without wasting any time they barged into the temple and tied the lone gomchen onto the pillar, and to keep him from starving they kept a huge pot of porridge at his reach to last through until the village returned. Thus, the kudung( Terton death body) was stolen and brought to Pangpisa and kept as their main relic in the Lhakhang.

Once, the Paro Penlop aka Penlop Haap visited the lhakhang and found out the kudung. Sensing its importance and danger of being stolen, ordered the people of Pangbisa to donate it to Paro Dzong. The people refused, so the penlop negotiated. The people of Pangbisa will be waved off any form of tax for three years and will be given preference to sit in the VIP cabin during the Paro Tshechu.

After few years the kudung was taken to the Dzong, the people of Pangbisa realized that their precious relic which they bartered with the tax waiver was not justifiable. They wanted to have the kudung back but could not go against the Penlop.

They planned a secret act to steal it. The people of Pangbisa had a very good relation with the people of Woochu who were and are still known for their iron works (presently opposite Paro airport). They ordered precise iron rods with hooks at the end.

Meanwhile the kudung was kept in a wooden box in the Marchey Lhakhang of the Dzong which was at the ground floor of the Dema Lhakhang.

There was a monk from Pangbisa who garnered much admiration of the Dzong administration that he was appointed the caretaker of the Dema Lhakhang.

Every year the entire monastic body of the Dzong visited Kitchu lhakhang for a religious ritual (which is still practiced, that’s what I heard but I am not very sure what it is and when it is done)

The people of Pangbisa informed the caretaker of Dema lhakhang to refrain from going to Kitchu Lhakhang that day. The people came with the iron rods and a co**se made from clay so that they can steal the kudung and replace it with the co**se.

Once in the Dema Lhakhang, they made hole, the size of the kudung, and pulled up the kudung with the iron rod but realized that only the head would come out and not the whole body.

They were running out of time, so they cut the head of the kudung and replaced it with the clay heard from the co**se. They then put down the kudung with the clay head and sealed the floor of the Dema Lhakhang.

Nobody knew about the act.

During the time, the kudung was offered new Namzha (clothes) every three years. When the Penlop opened the box to offer new Namzha, they were shocked to find the Kudung with a clay head. The penlop tried to take out the clay head but failed. So he kept as it is thinking that it was a lungten (prophecy)

The Dzong administration people became very furious with the people of Pangbisa as no other would have done the ridiculous act than the people of Pangbisa. A war was planned against the people of Pangbisa.

The wise Penlop ordered his people to refrain from war against people of Pangbisa as the Kudung originally belonged to them. He advised them to get a special thing from Pangbisa as a return for the head of the kudung.

The special thing was a golden Reim (Cymbal) that the Terton brought from Lake Gunapata. (it is believed that the Terton threw the other one to save himself when people chased him and the Reim Tsho or the cymbal lake can be seen still today. It is shaped like a cymbal with a slight miraculous bulge in the center)

The Penlop had so much faith in the kudung that he tried to jump into the fire to save the kudung when Paro Dzong was raised by a major fire. The Penlop was knocked unconscious. When he regained his consciousness, the first thing that he asked was whether the kudung could be saved.

It is also said the Penlop did not eat for days as the kudung was lost.

That is how the Golden cymbal came to the Paro Dzong and the kudung’s head remained at Pangbisa. The golden cymbal is used in a special mask dance on the first day of the Paro tshechu which is conducted inside the paro dzong. The head of the kudung can still be found in Pangbisa Ugyen Guru Lhakhang.

I am very fortunate to see the Kudung's head and many Ters revealed by Terton Sherab Mebar at Ugyen Guru Lhakhang. As the Pangbi Lhakhang Lam showed us the Ters one by one, we saw precipitation (Dutsi) of water coming out from the Ters. The Lam concluded that it is good omen and we are lucky to witness. We receives the ribul. In olden days one Pangbi Rilbu was equal to one jersey Ox.

The Ters are exhibited for public viewing during 4th day of 6th Lunar month coinciding with Lord Buddha Turning of Dharma Wheel.

Please visit.

Story courtesy:
1. The Center for Bhutanese Studies
2. Mural of Terton Sherab Membar in Paro Rinpung Dzong by Bhutan Majestic Travel
3. Terton Sherab Mebar and the Golden Cymbal by Gyeltshen U.L. Dorji

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