Paro His Eminence Dungse Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche’s pujrang was conducted on March 3 at the Dago phug Goenpa, Lango, Paro. The ceremonies which started at around four in the morning and lasted till afternoon was attended by members of the royal family, the cabinet including the prime minister and around …

A road construction towards Wangthangka village under Wangchang geog in Paro has been stopped after four households whose land would be acquired for the road has asked for compensation. One of them who owned the maximum area of the land wanted to be compensated with Nu 2.5 million to construct …

Phuntsho N Dorji was released a month ago after serving a three-year prison term. He wants to resume a normal life and is seeking employment, there being nobody to support him since he lost his parents a couple of years ago. The only hitch is he has to acquire a …

Buddhism as a religion gets challenging and even confusing when a child is born to a mother who follows Drukpa Kargyu while the father is a born Nyingma. And it gets chaotic when the father is a sort after master of the school which contradicts the mother’s. Well, Lord Buddha …

It has been more than two months since the revered Nyingma master Dungse Thrinly Norbu Rinpoche passed away and since  then his presence is missed around the globe by thousands of devotees. Now, the question doing the rounds is, who will take his place? In the Buddhist context, a lineage …

Last December, the Maldivian government ordered the city counsel of Addu to dismantle the monument presented as a gift from Bhutan by the prime minister, Lyonchen Jigmi Y Thinley. The monument, unveiled by the prime minister there last November, was a wooden carving on which the mythical four friends (Thuen …

Tathang, a charitable photo exhibition, held at the Nehru-Wangchuck cultural centre (NWCC), on Feb 21 is receiving good response. Hundreds of viewers visited the NWCC to get a glimpse of the works of enthusiastic Bhutanese photographers which also included entries by a few expatriates. The event was organized by Azha …

The ongoing  political turmoil in The Maldives has stifled the functioning of the SAARC secretariat office in Nepal after secretary general, Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed, resigned. But it will not affect Bhutan’s functioning in the SAARC body, the director general of  the Department of SAARC and Regional Organizations (DSRO)  Sonam Tobgay, …