Bhutan

Royalty
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People
- Tenzin Rabgye (1638–1696) was the fourth Druk Desi(secular ruler of Bhutan) who ruled from 1680 to 1694. He is believed to have been the first to have categorized formally the zorig chusum (the thirteen traditional arts of Bhutan). In 1688, he renovatedTango Monastery, approximately 14 kilometres fromThimphu. In 1692, he was first formally categorized during the rule of Tenzin Rabgye (1680–1694), the 4thDruk Desi (secular ruler). In 1692, he visited the sacred cave of Taktsang Pelphug during the Tsechu season and founded a temple there devoted toPadmasambhava. The temple is known as Taktsang Lhakhang (the Temple of the Guru with Eight Names) and was completed in 1694.

politics
- power struggle between china and india

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Dzong
- The Punakha Dzong, also known as Pungtang Dewa chhenbi Phodrang (meaning "the palace of great happiness or bliss"^[1][2]), is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan. Constructed by Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, in 1637–38,^[1][3] it is the second oldest and second largest dzong in Bhutan and one of its most majestic structures.^[1][4] The dzong houses the sacred relics of the southern Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Rangjung Kasarpani and the sacred remains of Ngawang Namgyal and the tertön Pema Lingpa. Punakha Dzong was the administrative centre and the seat of the Government of Bhutan until 1955, when the capital was moved to Thimphu. The Dzong is located at the confluence of the Pho Chhu (father) and Mo Chhu (mother) rivers in the Punakha–Wangdue valley. The source of the Mo chu river is in the northern hills of Lighsi and Laya in Bhutan, and in Tibet. The Po Chu River is fed by glaciers in the Lunana region of the Punakha valley. After the confluence of these two rivers, the main river is known as Puna Tsang chu or Sankosh River and flows down through Wangdue Phodrang, crosses the Bhutan–India border at Kalikhola and eventually meets the Brahmaputra River.

• According to a local legend, the sage Padmasambhava prophesized that “a person named Namgyal will arrive at a hill that looks like an elephant”. Ngawang Namgyal, 1st Zhabdrung Rinpoche, found the peak of the hill, which appeared in the shape of trunk of an elephant as prophesized, and built the dzong in 1637-38. Another legend tells how Zowe Palep, the architect, had a vision in a dream after the Zhabdrung ordered him to sleep under a small structure which contained a statue of the Buddha, known as Dzong Chug "small dzong". In his dream, prompted by the psychic powers of the Zhabdrung, he had a clear vision of a palace for Guru Rinpoche. The vision was imprinted on the architect's mind, enabling him to conceive the plan for the dzong without putting the vision on paper and to build it.^[5] On the basis of the dream vision of the architect, the building of the dzong was started in 1637 and completed in 1638, at the place where the Dzong Chug had existed. During this period, Ngawang Namgyal became the first leader of a unified Bhutan, following his concerted efforts to unify the country into one unit.

Monastery

- Paro Taktsang (Dzongkha: སྤ་གྲོ་སྟག་ཚང་, also known as the Taktsang Palphug Monastery and the Tiger's Nest), is a prominent Himalayan Buddhist sacred site and the temple complex is located in the cliffside of the upper Paro valley in Bhutan. A temple complex was first built in 1692, around the Taktsang Senge Samdup cave where Guru Padmasambhava is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, three days and three hours in the 8th century. Padmasambhava is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan and is the tutelary deity of the country. Today, Paro Taktsang is the best known of the thirteen taktsang or "tiger lair" caves in which he meditated.

Company
- tour agency

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india
- TREATY OF PERPETUAL PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP 1949 http://mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/5242/treaty+or+perpetual+p

- The Indian-Bhutan Friendship Treaty, which was signed in New Delhi on 8th February 2007, has come into force following the exchange of Instruments of Ratification between the two governments in Thimphu on 2nd March 2007https://idsa.in/resources/documents/Ind-BhutanFriendshiptreaty.2007
- 印度總理莫迪上周六接見訪印的不丹首相策林，會面後兩人宣布，印度將向不丹提供四百五十億盧比（約五十一億港元）經濟援助，以支持水力發電等多項基礎建設。有分析指，印度此舉是為抗衡中國，在中國透過「一帶一路」與援助影響南亞國家後，以「鄰國優先」政策加大援助鄰國。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20181230/00178_007.html

Hong kong
- trade

• hong kong tops the exporting market for bhutan goods, hon consul in hk facilitate celebrities' marriages in bhutan hkej 28mar18 shum article

- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201701/0116/HA06116CECC.pdf 曾敏珊 不丹大地 trade 金高嶺蟲草
- emma slade, formerly worked at hsbc, left hk in 1998 for bhutan and became a monk called pema deki (meaning blossoming lotus) hkej monthly jan18 issue
- http://www.anabykarma.com/ set up by Hong Kong accountant Quin Thong, links with TED and cma (leaflets handed out at fur products sale event), also singtao 27jun17 b4