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24 relations: Bhutan, Bhutan Observer, Bhutan Time, Black-necked crane, Dzong architecture, Dzongkha, Dzongkhag, Gangteng Monastery, Gasa District, Gewogs of Bhutan, Humid subtropical climate, Köppen climate classification, Lateral Road, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Ngawang Namgyal, Phobjikha Valley, Politics of Bhutan, Punakha Dzong, Sankosh River, Thedtsho Gewog, Thromde, Town, Wangdue Phodrang District, Zhabdrung Rinpoche.
Bhutan
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Druk Gyal Khap), is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Bhutan Observer
The Bhutan Observer was Bhutan's first private bilingual newspaper.
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Bhutan Time
Bhutan Time (BTT) is the time zone of Bhutan.
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Black-necked crane
The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan.
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Dzong architecture
Dzong architecture is a distinctive type of fortress architecture found mainly in Bhutan and the former Tibet.
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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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Gangteng Monastery
The Gangteng Monastery (Dzongkha: སྒང་སྟེང་དགོན་པ),generally known as Gangtey Gonpa or Gangtey Monastery, is an important monastery of Nyingmapa school of Buddhism, the main seat of the Pema Lingpa tradition.
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Gasa District
Gasa District or Gasa Dzongkhag (Dzongkha: མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Mgar-sa rdzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan.
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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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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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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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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is both a combat support agency under the United States Department of Defense and an intelligence agency of the United States Intelligence Community, with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national security.
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Ngawang Namgyal
Ngawang Namgyal (later granted the honorific Zhabdrung Rinpoche approximately at whose feet one submits) (alternate spellings include Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel; 1594–1651) and known colloquially as the Bearded Lama, was a Tibetan Buddhist lama and the unifier of Bhutan as a nation-state.
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Phobjikha Valley
The Phobjikha Valley ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁ (also spelt Phobjikha and, in the past, Phubjikha, the suffix kha means valley in Dzongka) is a vast U-shaped glacial valley, also known as Gangteng Valley named after the impressive Gangteng Monastery of the Nyingma sect in central Bhutan, where the graceful black-necked cranes in Bhutan (Grus nigricollis) from the Tibetan Plateau visit the valley during the winter season to roost.
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Politics of Bhutan
The Government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008.
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Punakha Dzong
The Punakha Dzong, also known as Pungtang Dewa chhenbi Phodrang (meaning "the palace of great happiness or bliss"), is the administrative centre of Punakha District in Punakha, Bhutan.
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Sankosh River
Sankosh (also Gadadhar. Mo Chu, and Svarnakosha) is a river that rises in northern Bhutan and empties into the Brahmaputra in the state of Assam in India.
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Thedtsho Gewog
Thedtsho Gewog (Dzongkha: ཐེད་ཚོ་) is a gewog (village block) of Wangdue Phodrang District, Bhutan.
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Thromde
A thromde (Dzongkha: ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་; Wylie: khrom-sde) is a second-level administrative division in Bhutan.
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Town
A town is a human settlement.
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Wangdue Phodrang District
Wangdue Phodrang District (Dzongkha: དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Dbang-'dus Pho-brang rdzong-khag; previously spelled "Wangdi Phodrang") is a dzongkhag (district) of central Bhutan.
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Zhabdrung Rinpoche
Zhabdrung (also Shabdrung;; "before the feet of") was a title used when referring to or addressing great lamas in Tibet, particularly those who held a hereditary lineage.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangdue_Phodrang
