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འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་རི་བརྒྱུད་ཚུ་ནང་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་རིག་གཞུང་ལེ་ཤ་ཡོད་རུང་ ད་རེས་ཉམས་རྒུད་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས། ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་རིག་མཛོད་འདི་ནང་ གློག་བརྙན་དང་སྒྲ་བཟུང་། དེ་ལས་འདྲ་པར་དང་རྩོམ་ཡིག་ཚུ་གི་སྒོ་ལས་བཟུང་སྟེ་ཡོད།

The Kingdom of Bhutan has vibrant cultures and traditions across its mountainous landscape, which are now in decline. This web resource contains extensive audio-visual, photographic and textual documentation.

འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་རི་བརྒྱུད་ཚུ་ནང་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པའི་ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་རིག་གཞུང་ལེ་ཤ་ཡོད་རུང་ ད་རེས་ཉམས་རྒུད་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ལས། ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་རིག་མཛོད་འདི་ནང་ གློག་བརྙན་དང་སྒྲ་བཟུང་། དེ་ལས་འདྲ་པར་དང་རྩོམ་ཡིག་ཚུ་གི་སྒོ་ལས་བཟུང་སྟེ་ཡོད།

The Kingdom of Bhutan has vibrant cultures and traditions across its mountainous landscape, which are now in decline. This web resource contains extensive audio-visual, photographic and textual documentation.

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