were called the Druk [colour] Party. The national anthem of Bhutan, Druk tsendhen, translates into English as "Kingdom of Druk". The druk (also known as...
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King of Bhutan (redirect from Druk Gyalpo)
misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. The Druk Gyalpo (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་; lit. 'Dragon King') is the head of state of the Kingdom...
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Drukair (redirect from Druk Air Corporation)
headquartered in the western dzongkhag of Paro. Founded in 1981, ten years after Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck gradually began to open up the kingdom from...
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The Druk Desi (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called Deb Raja) was the title of the secular (administrative) rulers of Bhutan under...
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secular leader, the Druk Desi (འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, a.k.a. Deb Raja); and a religious leader, the Je Khenpo (རྗེ་མཁན་པོ་). Both the Druk Desi and Je Khenpo...
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Another Round (redirect from Druk (film))
Another Round (Danish: Druk, lit. 'Binge drinking') is a 2020 black comedy-drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, from a screenplay by Vinterberg and...
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from Thimphu to Punakha where 108 memorial chortens or stupas known as "Druk Wangyal Chortens" have been built by Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuk, the eldest...
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Queen of Bhutan (redirect from Druk Gyaltsuen)
The Druk Gyaltsuen (lit. 'Dragon Queen') is the queen consort of the Kingdom of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as Drukyul which translates...
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Druk Yoedzer (DY) is a private newspaper in Bhutan. It is a Dzongkha-English weekly newspaper (Saturday). It was founded by Sonam Rinchen. As Bhutan has...
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Druk PNB Bank is a bank established through collaboration between the Royal Government of Bhutan and Punjab National Bank of India. Druk PNB, incorporated...
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The flag features the Druk, a dragon from Bhutanese mythology. This alludes to the country's name in Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ Druk Yul, meaning 'The Thunder...
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Wylie: Dbang-phyug Rgyal-brgyud) have held the hereditary position of Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King") of Bhutan since 1907. Prior to reunification, the...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Druk (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་) is the legendary Thunder Dragon of Bhutan. Druk may also refer to: Druk, of or pertaining to Bhutan...
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Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: ’brug nyam-rub tshogs-pa; lit. 'Bhutan United Party'), formerly the Social Democratic Party...
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History of Bhutan Druk Yul, the Land of the Druk, the traditional lands of the Druk Druk Yul, the traditional territory ruled by the Druk Gyalpo HD 73534...
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Thimphu valley. It was established in 1715 as the seat of the 8th Druk Desi, Druk Rabgye. Druk Wangditse Lhakhang is one of the oldest temples in Thimphu, and...
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Bhutan, crowned on 17 December 1907, and installed as the head of state, the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King). In 1910, King Ugyen and the British signed the Treaty...
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Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa; translation: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party; abbr. DPT) is one...
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Bohemian glass (redirect from Druk beads)
which the Czech nation is still well known is the production of "druk" beads. Druks are small (3mm-18mm) round glass beads with small threading holes...
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the crown prince, Megalestes gyalsey. He is expected to become the sixth Druk Gyalpo (King of Bhutan). He has a younger brother, Prince Dasho Jigme Ugyen...
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dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the (Dzongkha འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཉིས་པ) 2nd Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan from 26 August 1926, until his death. He pursued...
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Druk Gyalpo were: Princess (Druk Gyalsem) Sonam Choden Wangchuck (born 1953). Princess (Druk Gyalsem) Dechen Wangmo Wangchuck (born 1954). King (Druk...
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Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 – 21 July 1972) was the 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan. He began to open Bhutan to the outside world, began modernization...
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2023 and 9 January 2024. In the 2018 elections the previously unrepresented Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) won a majority of seats, with their leader Lotay Tshering...
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National symbols of Bhutan (section Druk tradition)
include the national flag, national emblem, national anthem, and the mythical druk thunder featured in all three. Other distinctive symbols of Bhutan and its...
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Kung Fu Nuns (redirect from Druk Gawa Khilwa Nunnery)
800 sisters, ranging in age from 8-80, in four nunneries: Druk Gawa Khilwa, Kathmandu, on Druk Amitabha Mountain, is the main training center and currently...
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documentation of the Druk Wangyel Complex consisting of the Lungchutse Lhakhang, 108 Druk Wangyel Stupas, the Druk Wangyel Lhakhang and the Druk Wangyel Tshechu...
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Michael Druks (Hebrew: מיכאל דרוקס; 1940–2022) was an Israeli-born British artist. Michael Druks was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine on September...
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(Dzongkha: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma, born on 4 June 1990) is the Druk Gyaltsuen (Dzongkha: Dragon Queen) of Bhutan, as the wife of King Jigme Khesar...
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