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Trashigang District

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Trashigang District (Dzongkha: བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bkra-shis-sgang rdzong-khag; also spelled "Tashigang") is Bhutan's easternmost dzongkhag (district). [1]

60 relations: Assam, Associated Press, Śāntarakṣita, Bartsham Gewog, Bhutan, Bidung Gewog, Brokpa language, Dallas, Districts of Bhutan, Domestic yak, Druk Desi, Dzala language, Dzongkha, Dzongkhag, East Bodish languages, Ethnologue, Gewogs of Bhutan, Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary, Kanglung Gewog, Kangpar Gewog, Khaling Gewog, Kurmaed Province, Lateral Road, Lavandula, List of protected areas of Bhutan, London, Lumang Gewog, Merag Gewog, Padmasambhava, Phongmed Gewog, Politics of Bhutan, Radi Gewog, Radi, Bhutan, Rangjung, Rice, Rock garden, Royal University of Bhutan, Sakteng Gewog, Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, Samdrup Jongkhar District, Samkhar Gewog, Sharchops, Sherubtse College, Shongphoog Gewog, SIL International, SOAS, University of London, Takpa language, Temple, Thimphu, Thrimshing Gewog, ..., Tibet, Trashigang, Trashigang Dzong, Trisong Detsen, Tshangla language, Uzorong Gewog, Wildlife corridor, Wylie transliteration, Yangnyer Gewog, Yeti. Expand index (10 more) »

Assam

Assam is a state in Northeast India, situated south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Śāntarakṣita

(शान्तरक्षित,;, 725–788)stanford.edu: was a renowned 8th century Indian Buddhist and abbot of Nalanda.

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Bartsham Gewog

Bartsham Gewog (Dzongkha: བར་མཚམས་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Bhutan

Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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Bidung Gewog

Bidung Gewog (Dzongkha: སྦིས་གདུང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Brokpa language

The Brokpa language (དྲོག་པ་ཁ།, དྲོགཔ་ཁ།, Dr˚okpakha, Dr˚opkha), also called the Mera-Sakteng language after its speakers' home regions, is a Southern Tibetic language spoken by about 5000 people mainly in Mera and Sakteng Gewogs in the Sakteng Valley of Trashigang District in Eastern Bhutan.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Districts of Bhutan

Bhutan comprises twenty districts (dzongkhag, both singular and plural).

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Domestic yak

The domestic yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired domesticated bovid found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau and as far north as Mongolia and Russia.

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Druk Desi

The Druk Desi (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་; Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called "Deb Raja")The original title is Dzongkha: སྡེ་སྲིད་ཕྱག་མཛོད་; Wylie: sde-srid phyag-mdzod.

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Dzala language

The Dzala language, also called Dzalakha, Dzalamat, or Yangtsebikha, is an East Bodish language spoken in eastern Bhutan, in the Lhuntse and Trashiyangtse Districts.

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Dzongkha

Dzongkha, or Bhutanese (རྫོང་ཁ་), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the sole official and national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Dzongkhag

A dzongkhag (རྫོང་ཁག dzongkhak) is an administrative and judicial district of Bhutan.

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East Bodish languages

The East Bodish languages are a small group of non-Tibetic Bodish languages spoken in eastern Bhutan and adjacent areas of Tibet and India.

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Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world.

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Gewogs of Bhutan

A gewog (རྒེད་འོག geok, block), in the past also spelled as geog, refers to a group of villages in Bhutan.

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Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary

Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (formerly Khaling Wildlife Sanctuary) is the smallest protected area of Bhutan covering in Samdrup Jongkhar District along the southern border with Assam.

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Kanglung Gewog

Kanglung Gewog (Dzongkha: བཀང་ལུང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Kangpar Gewog

Kangpar Gewog (Dzongkha: རྐང་པར་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Khaling Gewog

Khaling Gewog (Dzongkha: ཁ་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Kurmaed Province

Kurmaed Province (Dzongkha: ཀུར་སྨད་; Wylie: kur-smad; "Lower Kur") was one of the nine historical Provinces of Bhutan.

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Lateral Road

Bhutan's Lateral Road is its primary east-west corridor, connecting Phuentsholing in the southwest to Trashigang in the east.

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Lavandula

Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

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List of protected areas of Bhutan

The protected areas of Bhutan are its national parks, nature preserves, and wildlife sanctuaries.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lumang Gewog

Lumang Gewog (Dzongkha: ཀླུ་མང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Merag Gewog

Merag Gewog (Dzongkha: མེ་རག་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava (lit. "Lotus-Born"), also known as Guru Rinpoche, was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist master.

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Phongmed Gewog

Phongmed Gewog (Dzongkha: ཕོངས་མེད་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, in the East of Bhutan.

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Politics of Bhutan

The Government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008.

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Radi Gewog

Radi Gewog (Dzongkha: ར་དི་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Radi, Bhutan

Radi (or Radhi) is a town in Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan.

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Rangjung

Rangjung is a town on the Gamri River in the Radhi Gewog of Tashigang District, East Bhutan.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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Rock garden

A rock garden, also known as a rockery or an alpine garden, is a small field or plot of ground designed to feature and emphasize a variety of rocks, stones, and boulders.

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Royal University of Bhutan

The Royal University of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་; Wylie: 'brug rgyal-'dzin gtsug-lag-slob-sde), founded on June 2, 2003 by a royal decree, is the national university system of Bhutan.

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Sakteng Gewog

Sagteng Gewog (Dzongkha: སག་སྟེང་), also called Sakteng is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary

Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary located mostly in Trashigang District and just crossing the border into Samdrup Jongkhar District, Bhutan.

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Samdrup Jongkhar District

Samdrup Jongkhar District (Dzongkha: བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bsam-grub Ljongs-mkhar rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan.

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Samkhar Gewog

Samkhar Gewog (Dzongkha: བསམ་མཁར་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Sharchops

The Sharchops (ཤར་ཕྱོགས་པ.,; "Easterner") are the populations of mixed Tibetan, Southeast Asian and South Asian descent that mostly live in the eastern districts of Bhutan.

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Sherubtse College

Sherubtse College was the first accredited college in Bhutan, founded in 1966 by a group of Jesuits under the leadership of William Mackey.

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Shongphoog Gewog

Shongphoog Gewog (Dzongkha: ཤོང་ཕུག་), also spelled Shongphu is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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SIL International

SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is a U.S.-based, worldwide, Christian non-profit organization, whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.

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SOAS, University of London

SOAS University of London (the School of Oriental and African Studies), is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Takpa language

The Takpa or Dakpa language, Dakpakha, known in India as Tawang Monpa, is an East Bodish language spoken in the Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, claimed by Tibet as a part of Lho-kha Sa-khul, and in northern Trashigang District in eastern Bhutan, mainly in Chaleng, Phongmed Gewog, Yobinang, Dangpholeng and Lengkhar near Radi Gewog.

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Temple

A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.

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Thimphu

Thimphu (ཐིམ་ཕུ; formerly spelled as Thimbu or Thimpu) is the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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Thrimshing Gewog

Thrimshing Gewog (Dzongkha: ཁྲིམས་ཤིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Trashigang

Trashigang (བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), or Tashigang, is a town in eastern Bhutan and the district capital of the Trashigang Dzongkhag (district).

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Trashigang Dzong

Trashigang Dzong (The Fortress of the Auspicious Hill) is one of the largest dzong fortress in Bhutan, located in Trashigang in Trashigang District of Bhutan.

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Trisong Detsen

Trisong Detsen or Trisong Detsän was the son of Me Agtsom and the 38th emperor of Tibet.

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Tshangla language

Tshangla (pronounced), also called Sharchop, is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Bodish branch closely related to the Tibetic languages and much of its vocabulary derives from Classical Tibetan.

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Uzorong Gewog

Uzorong Gewog (Dzongkha: ཨུ་མཛོ་རོང་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Wildlife corridor

A wildlife corridor, habitat corridor, or green corridor is an area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures (such as roads, development, or logging).

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Wylie transliteration

The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating Tibetan script using only the letters available on a typical English language typewriter.

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Yangnyer Gewog

Yangnyer Gewog (Dzongkha: ཡངས་ཉེར་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashigang District, Bhutan.

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Yeti

In the folklore of Nepal, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman (Nepali: हिममानव himamānav, lit. "snow man") is an ape-like entity, taller than an average human, that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trashigang_District

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