Rising Drukyul

12/08/2015

Measuring just a third of the size of England with the population of Suffolk, the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan packs in 16 dialects and jaw-dropping landscapes that vary from subtropical plains to soaring Himalayan peaks, with terraced paddy fields and rhododendron forests in between.

24/07/2015

July 20: 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 spoke about the Middle Path and 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 བདེན་པ་བཞིའི་ ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན། འབྲུག་པའི་ཟླ་ཐོ་ནང་ 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་ བདེན་པ་༤ འི་ ཆོས་གསུངས་ཐོག་ལས་ ཆོས་འཁོར་དང་པ་ བསྐོར་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། འབྲུག་ལུ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ ཉིནམ་དེ་ འབྲུག་པ་ཚེས་༤ ཟེར་ སླབ་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ ཉིནམ་དེ་ ལོ་ཨ་རྟག་ར་ ཟླཝ་༦ པའི་ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ ཕོག་ནི་དེ་གིས་ཨིན་པས།

04/06/2015

Bhutan sets Guinness World Record by planting 49,672 saplings, with 100 volunteers, within an hour. The planting race began at Kuenselphodrang in Thimphu at 8 AM, today.

14/04/2015

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24/02/2015

A very Happy Birthday to our beloved dragon king.

10/01/2015

FORGET Disneyland, put Bhutan on your travel bucket list if you want to visit the happiest place on earth.

26/10/2014

Thimphu (Bhutan) (AFP) - Google provided a sneak peek into Bhutan Thursday by unveiling a Street View project for the remote Himalayan kingdom, featuring panoramic views of its majestic mountains, monasteries and crystal-clear rivers.

21/07/2014

What happened when Grammy award-winning producer and musician Imogen Heap hiked the Bhutanese Himalayas with The Happiest Place film team - then got her hands hundreds of hours of sound samples from this remote Buddhist Kingdom? Something beautiful. Imogen Heap wrote two striking pieces of music for…

21/07/2014

From the planet’s northernmost pinnacle to a South American salt desert, we dare you to go somewhere different.

02/07/2014

Pristine mountains of Bhutan. Bhutanese mountains are never climbed and explored. The highest unclimbed mountain in the world lies in Bhutan.

30/06/2014

23/06/2014

Michaela Guzy, founder of OhThePeopleYouMeet, interviews Dr. Karma, expert on Bhutanese culture and preserving their traditions during a local festival in Ur...

23/06/2014

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30/05/2014

Past and the future....you can see them together during festivals

12/05/2014

The crown Prince of Bhutan always hold the position of the Trongsa Poenlop (Governor) prior to ascending the throne.

07/05/2014

Blessed by the Divine Mad Man, this is the beautiful Lobesa Village in Punakha.