Thimphu’s Growing Pains: Challenges of Implementing the City Plan
Thimphu’s Growing Pains: Challenges of Implementing the City Plan by Manka Bajaj This study analyses the urban planning efforts of the government for an explanation of some unintended outcomes. A...
View ArticleComprehensive Review of the Land Act of Bhutan, 2007 for Revision
Comprehensive Review of the Land Act of Bhutan, 2007 for Revision by Dr. Dasho Kinzang Wangdi (former minister) Since land is the main source of social and economic security to majority population in...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 29, Winter 2013
1. A proposition “Bhutan is a Democracy”: Beyond the Constricted, Popular Wisdom of “Democracy” by Katsu Masaki This article seeks to dissect, with reference to Bhutan’s polity, how the Eurocentric,...
View ArticleWell-being, Happiness, and Public Policy
Well-being, Happiness, and Public Policy by Sabina Alkire This document was submitted as a background paper to the International Expert Working Group on a New Development Paradigm and seeks to...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies, Vol 30, Summer 2014
1. Traditional and Modern Understandings of Mental Illness in Bhutan: Preserving the Benefits of Each to Support Gross National Happiness by Joseph D. Calabrese and Dr Chencho Dorji The pursuit of...
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1. Early Happiness Policy as a Government Mission of Bhutan: A Survey of the Bhutanese Unwritten Constitution from 1619 to 1729 by Michael Givel and Laura Figueroa Modern Gross National Happiness in...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 32, Summer 2015
1. Export Price of Electricity in Bhutan: The Case of Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project by Sangay Chophel There has been substantial cost escalation on the ongoing hydropower projects in Bhutan,...
View ArticleGNH WF METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION OF GNH RESOURCES
GNH WF Method and Optimization of GNH Resources by Dr. Mukund M. Moharir GNH Weightage Factor (WF) Method is a mathematical procedure useful in the following cases: To identify relative importance...
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༄༅། ། ཚོགས་གླུ་རྩ་གསུམ་དགྱེས་པའི་རོལ་མོ་བཞུགས་སོ།། ནང་གསལ་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དྲུག་ལྡན་བུམ་སྐུ་ཡི་ཀློང་ལས། ། འགག་མེད་སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་བཀོད་པ་འཇའ་ལུས་ཀྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར། ། རིགས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་བདག་དྲི་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་དེ་མཁྱེན་ནོ། །...
View ArticleJOURNAL OF BHUTAN STUDIES, VOLUME 33, Winter 2015
1. Bhutan: Notes Concerning the Political Role of Kidu by Brian C. Shaw The original Tibetan concept of kidu (skyid sdug1 or more informally kidu) has been variously considered as welfare, self-help...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies, Volume 34, Summer 2016
Guru Padmasambhava was born in fire monkey year, which occurs only once in 60-year cycle of the lunar calendar. For the first time, a conference was organized to commemorate the birth anniversary of...
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རྣམ་ཐར་དང་གནས་ཡིག་ཐོར་བུ་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས། དཔལ་འབྲུག་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལྟེ་བ་ནས་ རྡོ་རྗེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱི་བསྒྲིགས།
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Journal of Bhutan Studies Volume 24, Summer 2011
1. Rows of Auspicious Seats by Dorji Penjore This paper analyses centuries-old Bhutanese ritual, bzhugs gral phun sum tshogs pa’i rten ‘brel. Literally translated as ‘auspicious seating row’, its...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies Volume 25, Winter 2011
1. A Zhabdrung Phunsum Tshogpa (zhabs drung phun sum tshogs pa) Thangka from the National Museum of Bhutan Collection by Ariana Maki This paper presents recent research on one thangka from the museum...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies Volume 26, Summer 2012
1. Ladakhi and Bhutanese Enclaves in Tibet by John Bray This paper is a preliminary discussion of the ambiguities surrounding the enclaves. It begins with an analysis of their common origins in the...
View ArticleJournal of Bhutan Studies Volume 27, Winter 2012
1. Massive Rice Offering in Wangdiphodrang in Zhabdrung Rinpoche’s Time by Dasho Karma Ura This article analyses a newly discovered book of 1679, perhaps the oldest extant land record, which shows that...
View ArticleBuddhism Without Borders – Proceedings of the International Conference on...
Buddhism Without Borders – Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Buddhism Edited by Dasho Karma Ura and Dendup Chophel This book is a compilation of the papers presented during the...
View ArticleSituation of Children in Bhutan
Situation of Children in Bhutan by Fredrik Barth & Unni Wikan The data on which this report is based were collected in Bhutan during the periods: 14-27 March 1989 (Wikan), 14 March to 24 April 1989...
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