Bhutanese architecture consists of Dzong and everyday varieties. Dzongs in Bhutan were built as fortresses and have served as religious and administrative...

[dzoŋ˩˨]) architecture found mainly in Bhutan and Tibet. The architecture is massive in style with towering exterior walls surrounding a complex of courtyards...

Cradled in the folds of the Himalayas, Bhutan has relied on its geographical isolation to protect itself from outside cultural influences. A sparsely populated...

misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in...

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Dorji Yangki is one of the first internationally trained architects from Bhutan. She has bachelors and masters degrees in Architecture (1996) from Deakin...

guidelines for dzong architecture, the characteristic monastery-fortresses of Bhutan. He also established many of the traditions of the tshechu "district...

restored. See List of Tibetan monasteries. Tibetan Buddhist architecture Tibetan culture Architecture of Bhutan Kham Aid Foundation – Gallery of Vernacular Tibetan...

The prime minister of Bhutan (Lyonchen, Dzongkha: བློན་ཆེན) is the head of government of Bhutan. The prime minister is nominated by the party that wins...

The branches of the armed forces of Bhutan are the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA), Royal Bodyguards, and Royal Bhutan Police. Bhutan does not have an air force...

of Tibetan characters. The King of Bhutan, officially the Druk Gyalpo (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་; lit. 'Dragon King'), is the constitutional monarch and head of...

western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's dzongkhags, the Thimphu District. The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced...

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Royal Bhutan Army (RBA; Dzongkha: བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེ་, romanized: bStan-srung dmag-sde) is a branch of the armed forces of the Kingdom of Bhutan responsible...

commissioned multiple missions to Bhutan. Official documents always cited cross-border raids by Bhutan or sheltering of dissidents as the immediate cause;...

Paro (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་) is a town and seat of Paro District, in the Paro Valley of Bhutan. It is an historic town with many sacred sites and historical...

The economy of Bhutan is based on agriculture and forestry, which provide the main livelihood for more than 60% of the population. Agriculture consists...

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decorated with traditional Buddhist paintings executed by painters from Bhutan. In gompa there are, besides rooms for religious worship, important other...

conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The national flag of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་རྒྱལ་དར) is one of the national symbols of Bhutan. The flag features...

seventeenth-century code on dress, etiquette, and dzong architecture. Natural symbols of Bhutan are its national flower, the Himalayan blue poppy; its...

The Emblem of Bhutan (རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལས་རྟགས་) maintains several elements of the flag of Bhutan, with slightly different artistry, and contains Buddhist symbolism...

Bhutan has diplomatic relations with 56 of the 193 member states of the United Nations and the European Union. This limited number, and the absence of...

The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: dzongkhags). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on...

Bhutan's early history is steeped in mythology and remains obscure. Some of the structures provide evidence that the region has been settled as early...

Phodrang (meaning "the palace of great happiness or bliss"), is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan. Constructed by Ngawang Namgyal...

Bhutan is a sovereign country at the crossroads of East Asia and South Asia, located towards the eastern extreme of the Himalayas mountain range. It is...

administrative centre of Punakha dzongkhag, one of the 20 districts of Bhutan. Punakha was the capital of Bhutan and the seat of government until 1955...

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