དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ ཞབས་དྲུང་ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་སྐུ་མཆོད།

Today, we honor Zhabdrung Kuchoe, the sacred day marking the passing of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, the great spiritual leader who unified Bhutan and shaped its national identity.

To keep discipline for a day is more valuable than 100 years of generosity; To cultivate Patience for a day is more valuable than a 100 years of discipline ~ Patrul Rinpoche

I have trekked this mountain on two different occasions, and today I find myself longing for Bhutan’s forests and wilderness. Missing home

Culture and heritage

Report says that a new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belem. This is to ease traffic for over 50,000 attendees, including world leaders.
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A wild Primula

Potted Rhododendron ciliatum

11 Years ago, this was how biogas operation began in some farmhouses in the far east of Bhutan.

ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ནི་ཚངས་པ་སྟེ།། དེ་བཞིན་དང་པོ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཡིན།།
བུ་ཡི་ཀུན་སྦྱིན་འོས་གྱུར་པ།། མི་ཡང་ཡིན་ལ་ལྷ་ཡང་ཡིན།།
དེ་ཕྱིར་དེ་གཉིས་ཕྱག་གི་གནས།།
Parents are Brahma,
Foremost acharya-like,
Subjects worthy of offering,
Both the lord of men and gods,
And thus objects of veneration.

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