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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Tsakaling Chojee, a religious nobility was established by Lama Tenzin, a spiritual figure of the Yonphu Chojee started by Lama Jampel Norbu. While Lama Jampel was said to have practiced Peling tradition, it was not clear of his family lineage according to Dasho Lama Sangnga. However, he also states that going by what is stated on a hand written catalog belonging to Kurtoed Lugchu Chojee, Lama Jamphel was a descendent of of Pema Lingpa, while Chabje Dudjom Jigdrel Yeshey Dorji has said that Younphula Choejee belong to the lineage of Terton Ratna Lingpa. Lam Sangnga also mentions that there are others who attribute Yonphu Chojee to the Lineage of Dorji Lingpa, while we do not know Yonphu's own historical narrative on this matter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">After Lama Jamphel Norbu, the next Yonphula Chojey was Choewang Lhendup, followed by his son Yeshey Gyalpo who had two sons, Gawa and Tenzin. Younger Tenzin a highly realized spiritual figure of the time established the Taskaling as requested by two local rulers then. As Lama Tenzin was looking for a place to establish his monastic seat, his hat stuck on a thorn of a plant in an area, which he took as an indication and made a decision to establish his seat in the same area. The place gradually came to be known as Tsakaling, meaning the hat and the Taskaling Chojee emerged from this establishment in a form of hereditary incumbency of the decedents of Lama Tenzin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">Lama Tenzin was married to one of the local ruler Nyartse Poenchen Nima’s daughter from whom the second Tsakaling Chojee Choewang Dargye was born.</span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";"> </span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">Chojee Choewang's son the third Tsakaling Chojee Ugyen Drukgyel who was credited to have subdued an evil serpent at Autsho in Lhuentse had only a daughter and no son. Therefore, the male heir of the lineage of Yonphula at Tsakaling seemingly ended with him. The Chojee then sends his people to get a son of Tamzhing Chojee of his time in marriage to his daughter to sustain the establishment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">The Choejee sends one of his Auzey, the cymbal master accompanied by two gomchens or the lay students to Bumthang Tamzhing with a directive. He reminds them that, as they enter the Tamzhing courtyard, the youngest of the five siblings of Tamzhing Choejey will be in the courtyard sharpening his knife and he is the destined man for Tsakaling establishment which should be approached with the proposal for marriage. He assures that the boy's parents will have no objection to the proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">As told by the Choejee, when the three entered the courtyard of Tamzhing, they found the youngest son of the family has just stood up from his seat having finished sharpening his knife but washing the sharpener stone. He was named Lhasey Doshel Samdrup for this significant coincidence and his role in sustaining the Tsakaling establishment. Lhasey, because he is a son of Pema Lingpa’s lineage of Nyo clan which is believed to have its origin to celestial abode; Doshel, as he was found washing the stone when the messengers arrived for him and Samdrup, because the wish of Tsakaling establishment is fulfilled through him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">One day when Chojee Lhasey Doshel Samdrup was in retreat, a bird chirped with the sound Bodhisattva (</span><span style="font-family: "ddc uchen"; mso-bidi-font-family: Wangdi29;">བོ་དྷི་སཏྭ</span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">) for three times after which news came in that his consort gave birth to a son. He named his son Bodhisattva. The next in line, Chojee Bodhisattva had two sons. The younger one known as Mugpo La was said to have become Jakar Dzongpon for once and the elder Pema Chojey became the seat holder after their father. He was well known for various miraculous actions including the well-known story of throwing out a pot of porridge in anger, which did not break even after having thrown out of the window of the three-storied house into the courtyard of the stone slabs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Pema Chojey had a son Tenzin Dhondup who took the seat after him and he had two sons. The younger Kencho was said to have become Jangphu Drungpa after pursuing a life of an attendant at the civil system, which was the grandfather of Dasho Sherub Gyeltshen’s late mother Nima Yangchen Zomba or better known as Yangchen Zomba, the wife of Zhingsheg Dasho Lama Sangnga the author of the mirror of Nyo lineage of Bhutan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">The elder Chojee Sangay Choedrag Gyatsho alsia Lama Tazig became the next in line for the Tsakaling to hold on their father's seat. He was one of the seven students of </span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">Dasho Lama Sangnga’s father Sumtrhang Drag Rinpoche, regarded as</span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> a disciple with </span>the equivalent<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> achievement of service as the master. It was said that, a sound of trumphet (dung) was heard in the sky for three times during his cremation signifying his accomplishment in his practice. </span></span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">His sons were also among some accomplished students of Drag Rinpoche.</span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Lama Tagzig was married to Tshewang Palmo of Bumthang Shingkhar Chojee with whom he had three children. Youngest a daughter known as Dolma was married to Ura Tarshong Chugpo Yeshey Wangdi and the second sibling Lama Minjur was also an accomplished student of Drag Rinpoche.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">The eldest Damchoe Lhendup alias Sangay Tenzin, which is counted among one of the 6 students of Sumthrang Drag Rinpoche accomplished in meditation with miraculous signs became the next in line at Tsakaling. He was Married to Ashi Rigzin Tshomo of Kurtoed Ladrong Lama family, a descendant of Phajo Drugom Zhigpo. They had two daughters and two sons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Youngest, a son known as Lama Kinzang Longdroel, who was believed to be the reincarnation of their grandfather Lama Tagzig wa</span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">s married to Yeshey Wangmo of Sumthrang’s Nyo lineage and they have a son and two daughters. The elder son Lama Chonyid Dorji was married to Tshering from Kurtoed Wawel, yet another descendants of Nyo lineage and has four sons and a daughter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">Elder Sister, Pema Lhazin was married to Kham Mingayag Trulku from whom she had three sons and three daughters. The </span><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light";">Younger sister was Dechen Tshomo, about whom I do not know.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "noteworthy light"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Noteworthy Light";">Note: This is a brief pull-out from Late Aku Dasho Lama Sangnga’s benevolent work of Drukgi Nyorab 1983, the genealogical account of Nyo lineage in Bhutan. Nyo is a clan originated in Tibet and in Bhutan Nyo lineage came through the only son of Nyo Gyelwa Lhangpa, a vajrakyila practitioner Nyoton Trulzhig Chojee.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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How much do we count on democracy? As much as we may expect, I fear so much of abuses. Do we make an effort to elect a leader and end up being targeted? Or do we make so much of effort in the name of tsawa-sum by voting a government to hand over the power without leadership? <o:p></o:p></div>
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People may wonder why this is held without posting until now and why only today? Well obviously I was worried at the beginning and now I realize the political trick that has made me worry, and so I worry no more. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Besides, I take the chance to post this story also having gained confidence from honorable PM’s facebook (31/01/2017) post that called to expose any corrupt practices. I would also like to remind the readers that this story does not at all imply the current government, which I am always proud of although it is a story of an action of a member of the government in his own personal capacity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is my testimonial experience of the democracy in power, a strong case that put me in a dilemma whether to respect democracy or avoid. This is a small story how there is so many in the democracy we think is the best solution. Politics I never thought would go this far to use the deceptive word such as "Gongma," meaning superior, to frighten and suppress individuals on behalf of their voters in believe of divisive politics as their way to orange scarf (Minister's scarf).<br />
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It is a calm but a busy day on December 15, 2014 because we have a special day on December 17. Sumtrhang was preparing for our annual Kangsoel with some excitements around. Because since the beginning of the revival project of Sumthrang's heritage, the oldest Mask dances in the country dedicated to His Majesty the Fourth’s 60<sup>th</sup> birth anniversary and long life in our own simple way, it progressed and for the first time after about 20 year’s of non performance making it an endangered culture, the mask dances are back, revived to be performed during Sutmrang Kangsoel, which corresponded to the National day of the year 2014.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some gomchen’s (laity) from Ura and Sumthrang were helping in preparations to prepare the ritual cake for the festival. And a former umzey (cymbal master) of Sumthrang, who has never been a part of sumtrhang temple for several years after he abandoned his association to Sumthrang temple long ago steps into the monastery and begins to make the ritual cake of his own in a separate bowl.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He even goes to the extent saying: "all the choesung torma<span style="font-size: 12pt;">(deity ritual cakes) will be made by me.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I tried to reason him to stop doing that. He does not listen. After some efforts to convince him to stop, I grew furious, because a man enters a private temple, a monument which houses spiritual beings both peaceful and wrathful, which not only is of concern to the private family of the temple but to the village, valley and country driven by divisive politics and encouraged by personal malice tries to impose his arrogance. Therefore I snatched the bowel in which his dough for torma is and threw it for dogs.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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Yet, it did not stop him, he began to make another one to which my father the current incumbent Sumthrang Choejey, intervened and told him that; "you may make as you wish if this is what you want to do. But you should take the responsibility in case if anything happens in the valley after Kangsoel is performed with the ritual cakes you made from personalized flour, which we do not know from where you bought and for what.” This worked well on him and was able to shake the odd man and decides to dump his second dough himself and leaves the temple. Here I realized that I was not a good negotiator in such case.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everything reset to normal. The next day my father and I are at a cousin’s place to borrow some things that we need during the kangsoel. My phone rang and the number calling was 17609989. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It was the than Dashi Dzongrab of Jakar dzongkhag Sonam Tshering (Who later in 2018 resigned from civil service to join the party of the same minister). He asked me to meet him alone. We invited him to our cousin’s place but he refuses and wants me out to meet him alone. I went to meet him and he starts. “<i>Gachi ra bay ye lo </i>(What is happening) ?” I thought he was enquiring about the issues I raised on facebook about the stone slab that is being extracted from a heritage site some time before. As I begin to talk about the site. “<i>Men men, choe gi umzey lu Gachi bay yi lo. Ro '<b>gongm</b>' tsu gi tug dhey ra matro wa chin dra mena</i> (No, No. What did you do to Umzey. I think it is better not to disturb the superiors),” he literally threatens me as if I disturbed the so called superiors.<br />
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The irony is that a real issue of heritage destruction is never attended to by the dzongkhag while the head of the dzongkhag takes the pain in coming this far to undertake suppression under the command of a minister who's interest shows no sign of service to the national interest using the word <i>Gongma</i>, the superior. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bemused and I stood little silent. What? I thought for myself in dismay and I explained what happened in detail. It was shocking, Dzongrab on a weekend drives a government car with a driver over 50 kilometers to just threaten me. I for one instant did not question who the “<i>gongm" </i>(superior) he referred to and left there. My father probably did not feel good about it, he accompanied by late Gup (Gewog or Local County Chief) arrived at the road side after me, Dzongrab acts normal and took leave immediately after few minutes of greeting to my father and the gup, saying “Yaya (Ok) samten!” in quite a polite way he took off in his hilux truck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I realized I should ask who is the <i>‘gongm’</i> he was talking about. I called few minutes after Dzongrab left because, who could that <i>'gongm'</i> be to sent dasho dzongrab (deputy district CEO) this far for a patty internal issue of Sumthrang Temple on a weekend holiday <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and the answer came; “<i>Ngultse Lyonpo</i> (Finance Minister).” </span></div>
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That was also the moment when the little trust that I have had for bureaucrats got drained deep in to the hell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt nervous and it turned out to anger. Technically the Finance Minister has send dzongrab to interrogate me using <i>‘gongm’</i> for coverage for this patty reason.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I felt little worried. Sumthrang has been under political brainwash for some time under divisive political propaganda and now I understand that it was not only the local coordinator involved in this dirty politics but a minister as I have always doubted. What has happened here is that the <i>‘umzey</i>’ seems to have been sent by his associates who are mostly the members of the minister's party to disturb Sumthrang Kangsoel. While the Umzey failed the mission, the story could have been reported to the minister through local party channel to which the minister must have acted on behalf of the party member/s. Is it healthy? Isn’t this not corruption? This is obviously childish but dangerous.<br />
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Although we do not know what kind of information is being fed to the minister by his coordinator/s who could have used a persuasive rhetoric to use the minister's power. But minister acting on behalf of his party workers on such patty individual matter is pathetic and foolish. I do not think government minister can use such arrogant power to interfere in personal and internal matters of even the government institutions so, forget about private individuals and institutions. And sending a government bureaucrat to officially threaten a private citizen with no good reason is I believe a serious misuse of power, a crime, dangerous. But I hope and wish there is no such minister coming to power anymore in future.<br />
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Well, back to the event, I was worried thinking that it could trigger some unwanted issues to <o:p></o:p></div>
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the ongoing preparation of our Kangsoel festival because there is a backing of a minister endorsed by the district administration. We began a quick typing of a concerned letter to the Gewog administration as a precautionary means. The Sumthrang temple put the letter immediately to the gewog with a copy forwarded to the Dzongrab with wishes expressed to have the concerned minister also be notified who is also the minister in-charge of Bumthang and Trongsa districts.<br />
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If our elected leaders do not stop thinking so narrowly in their party lines, I wonder how far the trust and believe between the government and people, people to people and leaders to the subject would prevail? If distrust is built, what can we expect from a democracy?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And from this experience, I will vote no one, but respect every government, I will hate no one but be a cretic to every members that I feel are not right. I shall not put loyalty to parties, but respect democracy. In the end I resolve to be a just citizen and a humble subject to my kings and this kingdom but will face any other power, even if I had to risk suffering.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-52312111630877177092016-11-18T00:44:00.000-08:002019-03-06T03:49:58.247-08:00From Sumthrang to Bemji (Bonbi), Trakhar & Ugyenchoeling, a Genealogical Journey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sumthrang Choje a family of religious nobility, where my this life is born to have known to me as an acclaimed source of many families in Bhutan. I never use to talk nor do I try to tell people we are relatives because it is always uncomfortable as it sounded trying to find a way to relate for some benefit. I knew this fact since my childhood because of conversations with my father. Almost every family somehow has some blood relation to sumtrhang and ends up being one or the another our ‘Ngew’ or the relative.</div>
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Of many families that have a kinship relation to Sumtrhang, Bemji and Ugyenchoeling are among those families and Trakhar often came up in relation to the family line of Terton Pama Lingpa. I heard of the relation we share several years ago but I never understood how?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not know much of Bemji Chojey but I knew this much that it may have its own history of origin different from Sumthrang. Ugyen Choling we know is the decedents of Terton Dorji Lingpa. The question was then, how did these families inter-relate?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most recently since I joined Shejun, I had the privilege of meeting Ashi Kunzang among the current generation of the descendants of great Terton Dorji Lingpa. She is a prominent first female writer of Bhutan with many books to her name. While I could not ask her my self although I would want to, fortunately, Ashi came forward telling me that we are relatives and how she recall a Sumthrang Chojey named Rinzin would visit them. But she could not provide much of the details too nor I could ask here much because I had nothing much to myself beyond what I knew little; ‘we are related.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I thought I would find out some day.</div>
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Again thanks to Shejun, last year I had the opportunity to visit Bemji for the first time and met Angay Tandin, who talked about Dasho Jamyang and his children but what she explained did not make sense because again I had nothing to fill in the puzzle and she did not have much to offer to construct a narrative before Dasho Jamyang to relate Sumtrhang-Bemji Kinship. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For now, I am little enlightened of the genealogical relations of Sumthrang Chojey, Bemji Chojey (Bamling Chojey), Trakhar and Ugyen Choling according to what I herd from my father and the Sumthrang’s most grateful Dasho Lama Sangnga's work of the Drukgi Nyorab and the oral information. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, Bemji according to Dasho Lam Sangnga is established by Dung Lhadhar who was a son of Sey Guru, one of the Pema Lingpa's younger brother. Lhadhar was so the grand son of Pha Dhondup Zangpo and also a disciple of Thugsey Dawa. Later this, lineage was renewed yet again in around the 1800’s, when Sumthrang Chojey Sangnga Gyamtsho the youngest son of the 22<sup>nd</sup> Sumthrang Dungzin Damchoe Singye married a daughter of Bemji Choejey known as Ashi Metog Mo becoming the Dungzin of Bemji Chojey.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I with Aum Tandin of Bemji<br />
who I believe must be a <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">descendent of </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">one of the three daughters of Chojey Sanga Gyatsho</span><br />
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Sangnga was sent to Bemji most probably because the Bemji Chojee that time did not have the male heir, therefore, a son from Sumthrang Chojee was invited into marriage for continuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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After this marriage, Sangnga Gyamtho and Metog Mo had a son Tshewang Chojey and three daughters.<br />
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But Tshewang Chojey married Kunzang Lhamo a daughter of Trakhar to take care of the Trakhar Nagtsang and give birth to two sons, Sonam Tobay and Dasho Jamyang, while one of the daughters took over the Bemji family establishment, becoming probably the first female heir to take over the family establishment of Bemji.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">In Trakhar Dasho Jamayng </span>was gifted with two daughters, Phuntsho Choden and Pema Dechen, both became the queens to the second Druk Gyalpo born from Dechogma of Tamzhing Chojey family. Dasho Jamyang also had two sons, the Chhumey Drungpa Goenpo Dorji and Sangay Dhendup born to Sangnga Mo of Chumey Chorten Nyingpo family.<br />
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From among the Chhumey Drungpa’s children, his daughter Dorji Dema married<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> the Ugyen Choling Dasho Kunzang Dorji from whom the current generation of Ugyen Choling family was born. Therefore the kinship genealogical journey from Sumthrang to Bemji to Trakhar and to Ugyen Choling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the past, these families hailed a great regarded to each other and often visited each other or became the host to one another. Angay Tandin recollected Sumthrang kins visiting their home in the past when she was younger and similarly Ashi Kunzang would also recollect how Sumthang chojey Rinzin also known as Memey Garba in Ura, the younger brother of Sumthrang Dungzin Tsewang Tandin often visited Ugyen Choling and lived with them at times. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the last Sumthrangpa who had kept a close kinship with Ugyen Choling going by the account of Ashi Kunzang while Aum Tandin did not remember names of those who use to visit them at her younger age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chojey Rinzin a youngest of 27<sup>th</sup> Sumthrang Dungzin Tshewang Tandin’s siblings, served Gyel Yum Phuntsho Choden as a Garp at the royal court and he is often known by the Name Memey Chojee or Memey Garbo, for being a son of Chojee and for having served as a royal attendant to the queen respectively. I remember, although quite kinder, where he would tell stories of how he worked at the service of the Gyelyum. He is the only grandparent I have ever had a chance to be in a lap of a paternal grand figure from Sumthrang Chojee family to which my father belongs to. Memey Chojee died in 1995 or 1996 (could not recollect the year). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Curtsy and Thanks to: My father, Drukgyi Nyorab for providing genealogical accounts and Lopen Khandu Shejun and Lopen Dorji Gyeltshen of CLCS for helping me with some names.</i></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><strong>Nyilo the Solstices: </strong></span>Some parts of Bhutan will celebrate winter solstice <em>(guen nyilo)</em> today, to mark<em> Nyilo, </em>the return of the sun.<br />
<em>Nyilo,</em> according to the Bhutanese lunar calendar based on Buddhist astrology, is the first day of winter and the shortest day, after which the days start getting longer until the summer solstice.<br />
“It’s celebrated as New Year, since this is the day when a new season begins,” lecturer for astrology with the Institute of Language and Culture Studies in Taktse, Trongsa, lopen Samten, said.<br />
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The lecturer explained that there is a difference of 10 days between the Bhutanese calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Which is why, winter solstice on the Gregorian calendar fell on December 21 last year, while the same is observed 10 days later on the Bhutanese calendar.<br />
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While <em>Nyilo</em> might fall on the same month in the lunar calendar, it never falls on the same day, said Lopen Samten. For instance,<em> Nyilo</em> was on the 9th day of the 11th month last year, while this year it’s on the 20th day of the 11th month.<br />
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“This is because <em>Nyilo</em> is based on the movement of the sun, known as <em>khimzhag</em>, and in the Gregorian calendar, the dates are based on the earth’s movement,” Lopen Samten said. “The difference is Buddhist astrology believes that the sun moves, while the Gregorian calendar is based on the earth’s movement.”<br />
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Therefore, he explained why <em>Nyilo</em> falls on the same date on every English calendar, but might shift by a day on leap years.<br />
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Like in Gregorian calendar, the Buddhist astrology also has two solstices (<em>nyilo</em>), and two equinoxes (<em>nyin tsen nyampa</em>).<br />
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Winter solstice or <em>Guen Nyilo, </em>which is celebrated today on the Bhutanese lunar calendar, is the day when the sun reaches Zhuchim (Sagittarius), corresponding to January in the Gregorian calendar.<br />
Summer solstice or Yar Nylo is the day when the sun reaches Thrigpichim (Gemini), corresponding to June in the Gregorian calendar.<br />
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The zodiac signs, according to Lopen Samten, are known as the twelve star houses <em>(karchim chu-nye</em>) in Buddhist astrology. Likewise, the vernal equinox, when the length of day and night is equal in spring, is known as <em>sokhai nyin tsen nyampa </em>in Buddhist astrology.<br />
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The two solstices and two equinoxes occur after six months and, together, the four occur at an interval of three months each in a year. “Therefore, the calendar based on Buddhist astrology is as scientific as the Gregorian calendar,” Lopen Samten said.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-8426714765703312312014-10-01T00:29:00.005-07:002014-10-01T00:34:14.561-07:00Smartphone Buying Guide<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From big, chunky cellphones to ultra-chic mini computers that will not only let you make and receive calls but take photos and videos as well, surf the web, play games and music, manage your schedule and emails, and many other functions you may not believe possible - the mobile phone industry has indeed made some great progress throughout the years.<br />
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What is most important to you? Some people find that Google's Android is more customizable and secure; others lean toward Apple iPhone's iOS because of its design and cool collections of apps; and of course, there are those who like Microsoft's Windows Mobile's user-friendliness. There are still a handful of less popular operating systems to choose from but the differences among platforms are probably not that major so make your life easier and settle upon one that is based on your preferences.</div>
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I, myself prefer thin phones with a slightly bigger screen. Samsung Galaxy S5 for instance, form-wise, is the perfect phone for me. I know a lot of people who, although prefer another platform, chose Apple iPhone solely because of its style, shape and size. Some like them really large - the better to watch videos, read digital books, web surf and play games with, like a phablet. If you're looking for portable and easy to carry/handle mobile phone, one that has an average screen size of 4-5 inches is your best option.</div>
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Don't you just hate it when a game you like would not play on your phone? If apps are a priority, take the time to research compatible phones for your favorite apps and games.</div>
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Two important points to consider - the price of the handset and the price of the service plan. Contract plans may seem cheaper as you do not have to buy the phone outright. But do consider the requirements, credit checks, additional fees, lock-in period and termination fee (should you, for any reason, break the contract) associated with postpaid plans. <a href="<a href="http://www.no-contract-plans.com/"><span class="s1">http://www.no-contract-plans.com</span></a>">No-contract plans</a> on the other hand, are prepaid phone plans that are simple and quite straight-forward.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-22218346775569053872014-09-17T22:38:00.001-07:002019-03-06T04:08:43.585-08:00Open Complain <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was a great news and a welcoming one as I read this story ‘Preserving social,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">spiritual and</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">agricultural landscape,” in a kuensel issue this week.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">The place, which was once stopped from excavation for stones, is now once has opened for excavation. The area known as Khe-Kharti (White water) located above Pangkahr village in Ura is a proven spiritual site with documents before the authorities by Sumthrang Lam (My father) who objected to excavating stones from this area some years ago. This area is not only the sacred spiritual place but was once a marsh wet land, a source of water. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is proven a spiritual heritage site listed in the sacred sites of Bumthang collected by National Library of Bhutan. It was recorded by a biological account which says the source of the water for the marsh area is nine spring waters that appeared when Terton Pemalingpa’s Grand father Tenpi Nyima (Father of Dondrup Zangpo) was born at Sumtrhang.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sumtrhang lam takes a special concern in protecting this sites since Her Royal Highness Ashi Sonam Choden Wangchuck, then the His Majesty's representative to the ministry of agriculture had a written command to protect the spiritual site around Sumthrang which has significance to the Kingdom as a whole.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I can not leave it for things to go on under my watch since it is a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gongmi Ka</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>unless an authority tells me that this written command is nullified,” Sumthang Lam, my father tells me. “I regret the present authorities that do not care much for this heritage sites nor respect this written command of Her Royal Highness. ”</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even if this royal command is not anymore relevant, it should still be relevant to be guided by the kingdom's environmental and cultural policy which focuses on preservation and conservation. </span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 13.5pt;">The competent authorities were notified of this un-mindful action in respect of constitutional responsibility. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 13.5pt;">The process of excavation in the area was also quite questionable. First of all the dzongkhag authorities a few years ago when the same person who is excavating now did the same, my father objected with proof of being spiritual site and is being stopped from the excavation. But now under the watch of the same management authority, it </span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 19.3333px;">ignores this issue while</span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 13.5pt;"> trying to make my parent's life difficult for informing the authority about their irresponsibility.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">Secondly even to excavate from one’s own land, people need approval from local government and then the permit is being issued by forestry, in this case the Thrumsingla Park. But this excavation seemed no such systems followed.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 13.5pt;">Thirdly the environment conservation act strongly </span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.5pt;">emphasizes</span><span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 13.5pt;"> the protection of marsh wetlands and this area was once a beautiful marsh wetland now totally destroyed. How do we ensure the rules are being implemented when the implementer turns a deaf ear and blind eyes to the issue in its own personal interest? Nepotism may be in practice?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">If preserving social, spiritual and agricultural lands are important, taking such misguided authority outside law needs a better dealing and a tough action. Else anyone will be encouraged to do the same. I may be interested to dig and excavate anywhere too!</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">When my father complained of allowing this excavation in the area we consider a heritage. The park manager has sent a team to investigate the work site of my father who was constructing a toilet for the temple from woods and stones already available.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stones were pulled from a garden wall and wood borrowed from a relative whose house construction was delayed whereby the timber is becoming useless in sun and rain.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">The park manager tells my father that the fine for using timbers for a house in Lhakhang will range from Nu5000 to Nu50,000 which he will decide while he says the fine to the person who is illegally excavating and destroying the heritage site may have to pay only Nu16000. I don’t understand, what is and how the rulebook reads for this matters?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am quite amused with what this park authority is up to? I call upon national media and other concerned authorities to do a constructive and thorough investigation on this matter. In the similar matter, the park also allowed to dig out a stone bed, which can be a natural heritage of the community. A rocky terrain, which was never touched until now, is being destroyed just because of management failure of the park, while there are plenty of stone available in all other places, even in private fields which can be good for farming as well as for stones. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a1718; font-size: 14.0pt;">I wonder if the situation of stone supply in Ura is facing any acute shortage that the park has to allow excavation in areas of environmental and cultural importance, which actually needs protection for future?</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-24743870132097537372014-03-26T02:55:00.000-07:002019-03-06T04:18:06.678-08:00Is entry to Goenkhag, gender bias?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was watching the BBS Dzongkha programme known as<i>Legshed-Lamzang</i> where Venerable Khenpo Tandin Sithup was speaking to a folk of youths.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you have watched and listened to the programme, a big question has been answered where many think a tradition where females are restricted the entry to <i>Goenkhangs</i>- the room reserved as the place for deities is gender bias.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was speaking about the four immeasurable, 1. The immeasurable love and kindness, 2. Immeasurable compassion, 3.immeasurable joy and 4. immeasurable equanimity, to the young youths.<br />
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One of the youths asked him that, in his view the monastery not allowing women to enter the <i>Goen-khang</i> does not make sense while the Buddhism teaches to practice equanimity.</div>
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True, as he said, but this is not an issues of gender discrimination as in the context of the gender equality. It actually respects equality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Khenpo said that first of all, a human body is never pure as it is composed of 36 filths. “A beautiful eye can be as disgusting as anything dirty on earth if it happens to be infected,” Khenpo said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So men or women every one is equally dirty and filthy by nature although we see it as handsome, beautiful and clean when we have fair skin wrapped in the most expensive attires.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, coming to the point of not allowing the women to enter <i>Goenkhang</i>, Khenpo said that, since certain nature of human filth is considered very powerful that can affect the spirits living in the <i>Goenkhag</i>; the deities, it is therefore restricted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Filth such as the women’s monthly period, the madness in a men who killed his father, a men who had sex with a women on period are considered a powerful filth that can agitate the deities. “Therefore, since it is quite difficult to know a women in her period time, to avoid any accidental entry that is believed would create agitation in the deities, women are restricted from entering the <i>Goenkhang</i> and not because they are a women,“ Khenpo explained.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Khenpo also mentioned, that even if it is a men, if he had killed his parents are not allowed to enter the <i>Goenkhang</i>. A man who had sex with women in her period should also not enter the <i>Goenkhang</i> until he had passed three days after the action so my father told me. For some women, it takes weeks to end the period time. It is therefore be noted that woman is not restricted but a filth believed to have implications is restricted. If one is free of it there is no restriction. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Therefore, I think it answers the question of not allowing women in <i>Goenkhang</i> as gender discrimination. But I agree it needs a new approach to it. May be women and men wishing to enter should make sure they are not wearing any of such filth mentioned above or may be have a notification in the temple so that men and women will make their own decisions to enter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I am not very sure if I should call it a happy ‘Women’s day’ or
not. It should be happy women’s day to celebrate as women’s day but to celebrate
as a day to promote women’s right I wonder if it is a happy day but I do wish the day a success in its </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">endeavour</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I express my wonder, because talking
women’s right itself is gender bias as it already treats women differently to other geners. How can you promote vegetarian when you
eat meat yourself and how can it promote gender </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">equalization</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> when itself is gender bias in its nature? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">We know there are some gaps where women's rights are concerned, but what I am saying here is that promoting gender biased activity such as this can not be a solution to women's issues. </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I think empowering women is better way than having a women's day for that reason. Empower it, but I think we don't need to differentiate. This might one day call for men's day because gender equalization will never achieve with the ideology of differentiation in the approach. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica";">It would rather be creating more gender tensions. Talking women's right is gender bias in itself, so the alternative I am talking about is promoting gender equality through human's right. Women's right can be even educated best by talking human rights than by talking women's right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">On this very day of international day for women’s right, I felt what if this day
is observed as ‘International day of equal right for all gender’ or some thing sort of, rather than as a day for women's right, discriminating all other gender. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">I do respect women,
men and any other gender that exist on earth. Therefore shouldn’t we commit to
up hold human's right to avoid gender discrimination. Should we go on saying
and demanding women’s right, and forget if we are discriminating other genders, except
women. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Can we </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">afford</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> discriminating gender in efforts elevate women's right? Only by promoting equal rights for all human
can we promote gender </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">equalization</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> and solve the gender issues. But I truly doubt, if promoting
rights of one gender against another would be of a sustainable solution to</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> gender discrimination</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Promoting gender based right, I believe is
rather creating issues than being a solution. Putting human right to the core and empower those gender which need special attention, why do we need to put emphasis on differentiation of one gender from another to empower the other. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A conversation on Women's day:</span></span><br />
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My friend: Treat your wife with nice meal because it's women's day.</div>
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Me: I don't believe in women's right, but human right. No extra treatment to discriminate when it is meant, not to discriminate.</div>
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My friend: Just something extra for your wife</div>
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Me: My wife enjoys her right as much as I do, so we don't have discrimination at all. Therefore I am not discriminating her even today. There is nothing extra, when it is always equal.</div>
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Love your wife, love all women, men and any human even animals. Avoid discrimination.</div>
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Dzongkha as a national language of Bhutan has been a topic
of discussion concerning its development. But remained suppressed under English
and was not able to rise to the level of English.</div>
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We saw arguments and discussions from many angles but for me
the reason why Dzongkha cannot pick up its use even with a tag of national language is quite curious. No one had convincing argument but this elder man (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memey</i>)
from a remote part of Bhutan was a convincing one for me.<br />
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He says, the authority is in the hands of high officials who run the
government, but to promote Dzongkha in reality would mean opportunity loss to
the children of those high officials. My eye brows raised, I was listening. “You can assess it if you want, and I am sure you will find almost all the children of high officials are equipped with only one language to be
employed and it is English,” he said.<br />
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How true I thought, if Dzongkha were promoted equally as
English use in official correspondence and working system, educated rural
youths would have lots of opportunity. “Because most of our rural educated youths are well equipped with Dzongkha and not bad in English, do you
think those high officials will favor such a policy,” the <i>Memey</i> questioned me.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Unless we encourage and do something that all those fancy English
educated children of high ranking officials have equal dzongkha knowledge as
the rural educated youths, I believe Dzongkha will not come out from current stagnancy
as a path to opportunity and become a true national language in
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Dzongkha is developing, no doubt, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memey</i> also believes so, but the government policy is not favouring dzongkha,
which is risky as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memy</i> say. “If
being equipped with Dzongkha gets no job there will be no youth taking interest
to learn Dzongkha, I am sure accounts and even science can be learned, taught
and practiced in Dzongkha,” he says. "But it will never happen unless there is the needed change."<o:p></o:p></div>
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He says, accountants in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dratsangs</i>
knew no English and they are as good as any accountants to keep the records. “I
meant our high officials should now start encouraging their kids with bilingual
education,” the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memey</i> said. “One day
it will have to be Dzongkha if Bhutan had to call it an independent and sovereign
country,” the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Memey</i> said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As memey left for me to analyze his thought for myself, I
think it is also for rest of us to think on ‘Why Dzongkha is inferior to
English in Bhutan.’ <o:p></o:p></div>
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For <i>Memey </i>the reason is all about ‘opportunity and employability,’
and I tend to believe in his view. You may or may not agree but it is true
Dzongkha is still suppressed under English when it has to be at least equal for
Bhutan. The reason is employability, the case of employability is created by government policy, engineered by people in power. So <i>Memey</i> truly has the point. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-71593986116436513132013-11-14T00:11:00.002-08:002019-03-06T04:56:33.724-08:00A Chinese heater through India to Bhutan? What does it mean?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Why should Bhutan pay for India to import Chinese goods when it is costing so much for Bhutan and its people.</span></i></div>
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This is an electric heater (in the picture) brought from
Dolma Enterprise, but one can find such electric heater in allmost all of the
shops that sell electric heaters in Thimphu.</div>
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As you see, it is a Chinese product but our Bhutanese
enterprenuers did not import directly from China. They have bought from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Indian dealers</b> and I am sure this would
mean Indian rupee out flow.</div>
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If India gets shocked when Bhutan for the first time bought
few Chinese vehicles directly from China, India should also stop selling
Chinese products to Bhutan. My argument here is, if India could buy Chinese
products and sell to Bhutan why can’t Bhutan chose to buy directly from China
at more cheaper rate than that of buying from Indian dealers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take it for this heater (in the picture), these business
houses have bought those heaters for around Rs3000 and are selling at different
rate in different shops in between Nu3500 to Nu4000, which means a heavy hammer
on the Bhutanese consumers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At what rate could it have bought by the Indians from China
and What could it have been the rate if Bhutanese bought directly from
China?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What could be the market price if
the Bhutanese dealers had brought them directly themselves? And what will be
the difference and its impact for Bhutanese consumers?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am sure our Bhutanese dealers could have sold at the same
price as they have bought from Indian dealers where our people the end users
could buy at Nu1000 less than what we are paying right now. If Bhutanese
dealers had paid Rs3000 for a heater to the Indian dealer, What would have been
the price paid by Indians to the Chinese? May be Rs2000. If a Bhutanese bought the heater from Chinese directly at the same rate, we the end users can pay
less than Nu3000 but not more than we are paying right now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who is benefitting from this tricky policy of our great
friend? Of course our big brother. our government takes loan from India. Say we
haveRs5 billion for Economic stimulus plan, aren't we paying 5 percent interest?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well as we have to buy even Chinese goods from India, we
land up paying Rs 5 billion back to our brother besides toping up again 5
percent interest. If we have to pay rupee even for Chinese goods, what kind of
profit can Bhutan make from 5 billion? What will be the benefit of Rs 5 billion
grant for ESP?<o:p></o:p></div>
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How can we stimulate our economy unless our brother agrees
to let us buy Chinese good ourselves, so that what ever Chinese yen we collect
from our tourism can be made into use to stimulate our economy for real.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think Bhutan will be happier than receiving billions of
grant from India as a friend if it would favour us with better trade independence
without having to bent for double hammer. And in the process, Bhutanse end up hammering
Bhutanese when Chinese hammer India and India hammers Bhutan. Can we at least
defend our own head if not hammer other?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can India do this favour for a great friend? If India is a
true friend and if it means real support to Bhutan’s Economic Stimulus Plan, then the support should come in favor of trade Independence and shipment route to Bhutan. Can
Bhutanese Government take a step forward for its trade independence, which
would actually make a great change in stimulating the economy? I am sure
at least this government can not do anything for it owe a lot to India in many
ways. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Should we keep looking upon our big brother to consider our
economy, our status and our strength, so that their small but great friend will
be with more power in hand to make impact being by their side.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No, Bhutan should at least raise to defend our own heads. While
we protect the interest of friendship, we can not hurt ourselves more than what
we have been waiting for our friend to consider our pain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-64668422804972692552013-03-11T09:29:00.002-07:002019-03-06T05:28:11.472-08:00Talking Women's Right.....!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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While I agree there should not be
discrimination among the gender and to empower the women at per with
men. Sometime the issue is taken too far.</div>
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Women's in Bhutan took plying khuru (traditional game played by men in Bhutan),
which by tradition is never a women's game. They say it is to bring
women at per with men. Does that mean women shall wear gho? Or should all women become men?</div>
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Traditional practices every where are gender discriminatory by
nature. In Bhutan women wear Kera (female dress), and men gho(man's dress), while such is same in
other countries too. Women in india wear sari, men doti, and if you check big shopping centers, we have men and women corners to choose from.</div>
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The empowering women in Bhutan has now become a sort of a campaign to convert women to men. I read women empowerment very differently.</div>
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Empowering women in real sense is I think about providing and opening all doors for men and women equally in educational, positional, decision making process and making sure all men and women are equally aware, educated, skilled and door open without discrimination. I think we need to be ourselves first to be in the race. If you have chosen to become the other, you are out of the race already because you exist no more.<br />
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For instance, a women who is so good to
her husband is changed. It was her will and her choice to be good to
her husband but in the name of gender equalization she is asked not
to do any house hold chores unless her husband does it too. What good will this do? disrupts the family which is other wise peaceful and happy. Do we have alternative? Yes! We have another way to approach in this case, enlighten the ignorant husband of the responsibilities and the roles he should share. </div>
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Do we need to encourage women to take
up anything that a man does to empower women? I thought providing
equal education, opportunity and providing equal platform for
participation etc is the means of empowering women. If converting women to men is the approach, what is the difference between some traditionalist in south Asia, destroying the female fetus? </div>
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We hear of some talk about women quota on the other hand? To me
this quota itself is discriminatory. It means women can not compete
with men at an equal platform even an opportunity is provided. While women's
right should be fighting for equal opportunity, and equal platform, I
find this abused to take chances for consideration. Women are better and they are brighter and able even without quota. We cannot afford to pamper any gender in the name of empowering it.</div>
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Enjoying the freedom of expression,
personal choice, individual right and equal opportunity I thought is
just for any one's right.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-92062034175912115952013-02-16T23:07:00.004-08:002019-03-06T05:36:55.246-08:00The latest Snow... a hope for its return....!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">But lets us also not give ourselves to the business of pollution to let this joy return!</span></i><br />
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The morning chirping of the birds are
missing, instead the cheerful sounds of playing kids early in the morning
has replaced in the other wise silent and calm neighborhood.</div>
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It was a wonder this early morning that
it drove me to peep through the window thinking I may have over slept or miss read my time on the clock.<br />
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As I looked through my window from between the slight open of the
curtain, the earth around is covered, to the delight of a longing
mind for such a joy, it was a merrily moment to see the blanket of
thick and white all around.</div>
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It was snowing and unusually it has
settled so thick after so many years of unsatisfactory snow in
Thimphu and around.</div>
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not withstanding the excitement, I took my self out of the bed, buckled my
shoe carrying a tiny camera I had and walked around my home to take
some quick shots of excitement, joy and celebrations that I heard around.</div>
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people making snowman. Excitement have even drove some one out in
slippers forgetting the cold. For me I forgot the worry and
disturbance I had from the accident I had last night.</div>
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Is it, the snow returning finally? Are
we going to see this thick blanket the following winters unlike
former years that had just a minute's white wash.
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This winter had brought a hope
particularly in me for bygone child hood days. which I remember playing
in the thick snow and hiking in the near by forest in hope of
finding dead wild boars to party.</div>
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The thickness measured my four fingers.
A thickness that we never saw in the past years. Can we do it
further more to reduce carbon emission so that we can receive this
joy of winter return every year.</div>
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Can we pollute less and cut more that
pollutes so that this joy is reinstated to assure ourselves that
our natural health is recovered from invasions of destructive
economic activities of pollutions.
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It was like a spring hope, that this
thick snow had brought for me. Let's wish ourselves good luck and
enjoy the brightness of the snow flakes to return with indication of our environment recovering from sickness.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-32048094088647599082013-01-28T06:12:00.001-08:002019-03-06T05:43:13.009-08:00Choosing the best is crucial to ensure the best...!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Why Primary round is crucial in the
forth coming election for Bhutan?</div>
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This is because, it is from where we as citizen chose the best of the five parties to take up the business of national affairs.</div>
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If we want a strong opposition and a
strong government at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang, I would advise that we be
mindful and participate as much as we can in the primary round of
election to chose two of the strong parties for the general election.</div>
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I think, BBS should reconsider their decision not to give air time to the party candidates, because to make a good decision for the voters to vote at the primary round, knowing the candidates of the parties is crucial.</div>
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After primary elections, giving air time to the candidates would less make any difference, because either ways, strong or weak one is going to be in opposition while one is set to form the government, it is then late to play a part for anyone to change, incase.</div>
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Having voted two most capable parties for the general elections, we can then relax, because who ever
forms the government or the opposition, it is assured that
the parties are competent to take their own roles and
responsibilities whatever they get to take on.</div>
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If we don't make sure that the two of
the strongest parties are voted for the general elections, or if
we compromise to vote at the primary elections for our own
convenience, we might lose as a citizen of the country to vote the
best team for the parliament which will then be a burden to the
nation.</div>
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For this, to know which party has the
competency, knowing the team and their people is crucial for the
voters and it is here where the media can play the crucial part.</div>
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For me, primary round is more important
then the general round of election, because if we are able to sent two most competent
parties for the general election, there is no regret to even miss voting in the general election, because both has the competency and
either of the parties can be a government and opposition.</div>
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Therefore, I believe for Bhutan, primary round of election is
more crucial than the general election for those genuine Bhutanese. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-26482712724408911912012-12-04T02:56:00.001-08:002019-03-06T05:59:07.293-08:00Journalism: How in Bhutan...?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where does it go from here is what hits the minds of journalists in Bhutan having to survive the life while passion is on writing.</div>
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Only the time they forget this concern, is when
they are nipped into busy reporting.<br />
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While things are more promising for
young graduates joining the management team, it was never the same
for young journalists interested in reporting and trying to be a voice for
voiceless.
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The media houses, housing as many young
journalists with very few senior seasoned journalists speaks about the current situation of Journalism in Bhutan.<br />
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Take a look back, the Bhutan's first journalist
became the media controller by taking up bureaucratic seat as the
secretary for the Ministry of Information and communication.<br />
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Following the same, as many senior
reporters from kuensel are now in position other than journalism some
are CEO, some seem to lobbying for political career, some are already in to public relation, some working as media officer some where and other into private business.<br />
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Some of the journalists in the private media houses are also seemingly giving up on the job. Recently Mr. Tashi Dorji resigned from the editor
of the Business Bhutan. And there are not much seasoned journalists holding back on the profession to remain, because this is as far as they can go. Not promising of a career I believe. </div>
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If only these few faces like Lop Rinzin Wangchuk, Mr. Phuntsho Wangdi, Mr. Nidup Zangpo and Mr. Samten Wangchuk of those old flocks of journalists remain. Unless
they have some other intention deep inside, the journalism in Bhutan
rests up on the only few seniors of below 10 years in
journalism to catch up with international journalism, whose journalists have more than 20 years of field reporting to boast. May these people remain and hang on the profession and give a life to journalism in real sense.</div>
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To count our own, I believe it is the only kuensel editor Mr. Phuntsho Wangdi in today's time, who have more than 20 years in journalism and still serving in the field.<br />
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The end of the career destination of
journalist in Bhutan, so I think is held by the Government on one hand
and the management on the other hand. </div>
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For instance, journalists working with
private media houses remain unpaid for months that they are compelled
to think of other possible jobs for a career although their interest is
in journalism, because the source of revenue, the most that comes from Government isn't much in their favor. </div>
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Meanwhile in corporate media houses,
reporters are less concern for management where most of the
reporters feel ignored of their welfare while the management is concerned of the business not realizing that it is a media house where the editorial content is its front line for the business. <br />
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Most of the time best reporters are the
one who look for alternative job while management does not care to
retain, rather some quote egoistic citations by management individuals of having heard of saying "we have hundreds of graduates
waiting for the job."</div>
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Journalism I believe is not about
getting job or having a plenty looking for job, it is much more than
just a job that demands interest, commitment, knowledge and skills
that can only be possible after spending not less than 10 years in the
profession.
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Looking at the current trend in
journalists seeking career shift, the media and journalism in Bhutan
seems to take time in reaching the height of journalism.</div>
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To see a Bhutanese journalist as old
as those you see in BBC and Aljazeera reporting from the field will obviously take few more decades to see it in Bhutan.<br />
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I wish and hope a few vibrant journalists we have in kuensel, BBS, and other private media remain to continue and groom the rest wanting to grow with journalism.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-76369384657858757292012-11-11T01:12:00.001-08:002019-03-06T06:09:34.293-08:00GNH: My perspective.....!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I</span> have just realized that our country
is not a GNH (Gross National Happiness) country. But a country aspiring for GNH and that promotes GNH as its vision for the world.</div>
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Is Bhutan a GNH country? Are all Bhutanese happy? if these are the questions to qualify a country to be called GNH country, Bhutan can never be a GNH country. Bhutan is know by world as GNH country for adopting Gross National Happiness as its development goal against the idea of GDP. It is an aspiration and work in progress not yet achieved. </div>
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This would rely on individuals living
in Bhutan, the individuals leading the country and its management of the developmental progress.</div>
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But for having introduced this vision of GNH to the world
and also, as it aspires to realize this idea at home, why not can
it be called a GNH country. If I am asked, whither I am happy being
in GNH country, of course I would say I am happy, because I am in a country
that respects happiness, aspires to be happy and tries to promote the
happiness at home and in rest of the world.</div>
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People here question authorities if
there are policies and practices that are not in line with the
philosophy of GNH. People raise voices and talk development keeping
in mind the basis of GNH. This is already a progress. </div>
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Leaders talk GNH and ensure that the
policies will be inline with GNH. This itself makes well and good enough
for rest of the people to watch how the government and authorities
work. Because if thing are not so, we can and have the right to
disown such a government and authorities. We strive for GNH and we will need a government working towards this vision. </div>
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Like having given a birth to a child
doesn't become a son for a father and daughter for a mother, GNH
needs to be nurtured, built and should be realized, that would take
the efforts of everyone in the country.</div>
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Yes! whether one agree or not, it is the
reality that the 'GNH is Bhutanese' as one of the former prime ministers said. If we as an individual citizen of
the country that gave birth to GNH fails to live by the GNH
principles, we fail GNH and our country as a whole.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-2898329242593132502012-10-31T03:43:00.001-07:002019-03-06T06:17:26.181-08:00Radical ability of GNH......:)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was not so easy to be within the
intellects and academicians discussing most abstract subject as the
Gross National Hapiness.</div>
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One may lose the logical sense at times
when they discuss and argue on psychological aspect of the GNH.<br />
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One may even fail to describe your own state of mind at that moment, if
you think how so complex the subject is as they offer you different definition of happiness.<br />
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Trying to understand GNH throws one into the mess of complications, taking away your happiness as you try to figure out the aspects of GNH.....lolz </div>
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To see how GNH is capable of stimulating radical perceptions, in one of the workshops, I had to witness some participants in the meeting of practitioners and scholars of GNH had a few minutes of competing themselves on the scale of radicalness.</div>
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On the education aspect, one of the
participants said, rush to achieve 100 percent education mandated by
millennium goal is a distress to GNH.<br />
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Because in a rush to meet the
goal, every child irrespective of their willingness or their parents
will, are forced to enroll in schools, drastically increasing the
population of literate and educated who now just don't want to take
up blue collar jobs.</div>
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And the unemployment rate climbing high
with all lot of educated criminals.
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Another says the children are taught in schools going by
the curriculum that is pre arranged before they knew their own area
of interest and forced to study as per the school tradition.<br />
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He
thinks there should be ways where the interest and capability
of a child should be recognized at the age of 10. So that the children
can be encouraged in the field of their capability and interest. A ten yer old has to tell us their choice of subject.<br />
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More radical as the scholar himself
calls so, learning how to read and write takes so long and he
thinks nine years behind the desk for children to learn how to read
and write is a waste of time. “My child who never went to school
and did home schooling is doing great in her university,” a foreign
participant says. </div>
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He goes on saying how he would opt for
a minister with out school education over a one with school education. “ I would prefer a finance minister
without a school education over a one with Phd. in economics, because
they are all taught wrong.” Can't agree more, we saw Lalu Ji doing magic in Indian rail ways performance as a minister for rail ways. </div>
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I am not saying that GNH is radical,
but I am saying that GNH have this ability to stimulate radicalness in people and
the worse is, if you are listening to the GNH discussion without that
intellectual level of those who are talking, can throw you into your own radical world.<br />
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(Listening at those lines, I lost the track of Happiness by definition because these for me sounded no different from talking GDP) One might then realize that listening
to a talk on happiness was not always happy but heavy........!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-67071284571524230412012-10-26T07:24:00.001-07:002013-04-21T14:54:31.747-07:00That natural bliss at my Kinder age I miss....! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It was a great county side, a village where I grew up. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Sumthrang village of Bumthang Ura in Bhutan is located just at the foot of a cliff at its north. </span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">To walk up to its top, one takes about an hour but it is just over half an hour to walk down from the cliff back to the village.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Huge pile of that cliff adorns the tiny village with its magnificent beauty of flowering bushes around and a gush of flowing stream cutting the cliff in to two halves. </span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The stream that runs down through the ravine of the cliff was once a a joy of the village for it provides clean mountain dew in summer and astonishing blanket of ice in winter amidst the cliff, where vultures fly and rest enroute from their northern habitat to the southern foot plains. </span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The 'SOUND OF FALLING ICE' was said to be the great charm of the spring approach according to the elders and I remember hearing that sound at my early eight for the first and last.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Since then the sound of falling ice was never heard, because the winter ice is not as big as it once use to be. Thickness of the snow fall that I once enjoyed at my young age is now no more an experience for the youths of this generation at this village.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">As I visit my village in the mid of summer, the stream where we swim at my young age is not so big enough as I remember. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I saw the ice in winter not as big and as vast as I once witnessed at my kinder age. When I with my friends play around as we roamed in the jungle picking up fire wood to warm in winter, the ice covered wider and it used to be thicker.</span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">My kinder age is to much associated to the fun of nature, our young group of friends would enjoy a fun of small hunting, running after the beautiful peasants that we see around.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">With tiny hands, swinging tiny stones that never succeeded a kill but was a fun that we were offered by the pleasant nature. Now as I go around, things look different, we rarely hear the sound of those beautiful peasants, forget witnessing their colorful pattern. </span><br />
<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The ice within the revine of the cliff is thin, the water has no gushing effect but moves silently though the rough basin full of rocks that once use to be covered by water. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: whitesmoke; color: #595959; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">If this is climate change, it really is happening...............!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-64828257365381500062012-10-08T23:16:00.000-07:002012-10-08T23:16:19.006-07:00In-Dependent.......?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Glister of sun rays dwelling on to the
fading autumn earth. Peoples are at their usual routine and
everything is alright.</div>
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Cars running up and down for one or
other reasons and every kitchen in the house holds with their gas
stoves burning busy, preparing the morning breakfast.</div>
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Things are all running normal, but
nobody is aware of what is happening? No body was at realization that we are officially an independent country but by status totally dependent.</div>
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Until the few days back- when fuel
stations are bogged down with vehicles lined up, creating horrific
traffic jam and people lining up with gas cylinders since the early
morning and many having to return without one- some realizes how
dependent we are?</div>
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Few are talking of need to check for
recourse into our foreign relation policy and possible look for
opening the northern boarder. But many still don not support.
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But looking at one way relation, Bhutan
isn't at a comfort level that anything from Bhutan's economic
security and national security rests on that one way relation.
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Assume that our great brother India is
in a problem. Bhutan by default will be in a problem too while it
might not be the same. Bhutan can not even avoid few days strike in
Indian boarder towns from hampering its daily run.
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In that few days last week, while
public may be at squirrel, it also reminds us that we need to look
for alternatives.</div>
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We might not have to open our northern
boarder if we think is not a right move, but we at least need pipe
links with a nearest oil distribution set up till the Southern town
to avoid such problems. And find other ways to stop letting problems
in our neighbor country to be ours, but to built ourselves to be
their reliable friend to help at their troubled times instead.</div>
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Are we to rise only if our neighbor
raises and are we ready to fall if our neighbor falls? As a true
friend, one should raise to help each other in terms of other's
failure, I believe.</div>
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As a trues friend, our great brother
India should also support alternatives for Bhutan so that India have
its trues friend at right track to empower its muscles. Because if
Bhutan is well off, India will not have to lose but gain........!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-57217772464321877612012-09-26T07:56:00.000-07:002013-06-04T18:37:57.361-07:00Ped-day a political hot cake.. It still continues to be..!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><b>At the end, we the public are in the field of political game like a ball, played among the players of politicians..... !</b></i><br />
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Pedestrians day runs in the minds of
many like a hot cake, while many criticized and many supported, there is this divisive opinion.</div>
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On the other hand in the wake of
political activity with next parliamentary election knocking the door,
it is also indeed secretly becoming the weapon of wooing votes.<br />
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believe some politicians have even approached the NEC seeking views
on the Ped-day while openly saying that they are developing a
campaign strategy against the ped-day move... wow!</div>
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It's again a hot cake for the existing
and in-formation political parties that if not all, one of the
opponent political parties would indeed use the Ped-day against the
Government. For there have been lots of hue and cry after the ped-day; criticizing, alleging and condemning such a move without public
consultation. The point is many are effected.
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Such opponent parties would use as many
strategies as they can yet government as one may smell such strategies, would also have its
own strategic arguments too.<br />
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Sacrificing political benefit for the general cause is
main argument that the ruling party is trying hard that may please the public, but with tough opposing arguments form the opponent parties, public would be the judge rolling their eyes from left to right.<br />
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But in wake of all such
political fight, what general public would want is a true benevolent
argument with suggestions from those who criticize and a true initiative backed with reasons and
result from the one who initiated.
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The critics have criticized the
government and still continues to be, but there is no critics
suggesting a good alternative.
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Government on other hand has so far
failed to report to the public the result of the initiative. Did it
really achieve the ultimate goal or is it just being there in the
name of noble initiative.</div>
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Any good alternative suggestions seems
to be hidden in the political game, reserving to implement only if
the one holding that alternate idea is in the position of ruling. If
this is so, many such suggestions and ideas benefiting the country
seems to be remaining selfishly reserved.
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At the same time is the government not
taking any initiative to produce satisfactory report of the Ped-day
to keep the opposite political groups in gimmicking about the Ped-day, so that to gain some political strategy against their opponents. If so yet again such a
government would then be doing nothing but only in political benefit.</div>
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The Ped-day is just an example, in general we Bhutanese as a unique small country can not be a
battlefield for political matters but should rather use the political
system as a plate form to prove capabilities to uplift the country.
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We as a people for the country, would not want selfish political bullshits, who
look for political gain but patriotic who considers benefit to the
country from personal and political sacrifices.<br />
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But the question is, who is really a patriotic while every one would claim to be so? The Ped-day although moved from every tuesday to every first Sunday of the month to be only once a month, still attracts political attention. If one sees tweets of as many anonymous political supporters, it is still a political tool. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-46603168167773787962012-08-14T00:20:00.004-07:002012-08-14T07:40:08.336-07:00On Demand: A RESULT of the pedestrian's day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><i>This result of an assessment on the pedestrian's day would be the certificate of Bhutan's Leadership in environmental protection, But if only proven with positive impact of the day beyond just a drop in fuel consumption.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">o many Tuesdays passed after the
government declared it as the pedestrians day. A decision bold enough
and a sign of trying means to commit towards environmental
conservation. Good enough.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As it was expected to be an
inconvenience for all walks of life, there are as many critics who
did not like the idea as well as quite a good number of those who
also support the idea despite all the tribulations we suffer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One day a week, of about 12 hours a day
would be saving a lot of fossil fuels burning into air and it is
almost proven from the drop in sales of fuels in the gas stations
around the country but, if government wants to prove it further, t an
environmental impact assessment of the pedestrian's day, its impact
on the air and atmosphere is a dare need for the public to appreciate
their sacrifice of the convenience.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The RESULT needs to be presented, other
wise drop in use of fuel gasses might help reduce INR outflow in a
bit but it isn't serving the purpose of great tribulation people take
to support.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am one of the supporters of the idea
but like me many would love to see a result so we appreciate giving
up the convenience for about 12hours every week. Had it been in that
old days of no road era, this wouldn't have been any inconvenience
and no one would have even questioned nor would demand any Result.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can there be a result presented for the
public soon, because it can be a great relief for the supporters of
the idea as well as for the government itself because critics would
then also be satisfied.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PEOPLE ARE EAGER TO SEE A RESULT THE REAL
RESULT OF THE PEDESTRIAN DAY'S POSITIVE IMPACT ON AIR AND ATMOSPHERE SO THAT EVEN THE
WORLD WOULD THAN FOLLOW TO REDUCE FOSSIL BURNING TO DECREASE CARBON
IMMISSION.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-61846221943521348312012-08-09T23:38:00.002-07:002019-03-06T06:36:02.749-08:00Who is really paying for wild life conservation?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Actually the poor farmers are paying for wild life
conservation and is voiced by other national and international
agencies...............</span></span></div>
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While the human wild life conflict is
seen as natural phenomenon for all living being having to live in one universe, it is more often fought between the wild animals and the
villagers who cherish their domestic animals and their crops to whom they depend
their livelihoods.</div>
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If there is no national and
international conservation policies to protect the wild species, the
winners will be the villagers who can hunt down or can poisoned
the wild animals to death.</div>
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But these poor farmers living in
villages by the forest sides are adhering to the policies that does
not favor much to their interest keeping by the imposed law, although it hardens their
livelihoods.</div>
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For instance, small tiny land locked
country of Bhutan is voiced for its rich biodiversity and forest
cover that give shelter to big cats. They are in Bhutan most probably because neighboring countries have used most of their forest and they are being pushed by
urbanization in its neighboring countries. So they find solace in this country which protected them at the hardship of poor farmers in the remote villages.
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While the farmers are not allowed to
kill any of these wild animals and if killed is charged for
criminality with huge fines and penalties, their domestic animals
and crops lost to the wild animals are never compensated or if compensated.</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
The agencies concerned for wild life
conservation seems to work hard on getting support from national and
international donors and agencies interested in wild life
conservation to support compensation to the villagers for their lost
but gets nothing.
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
While it is the conservationists
interest to save wild life, the burden seems to be put on farmers who
do not actually having nothing to gain from conservation.
</div>
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Why is the
government who voices importance of conservation and international
agencies who put so much importance in conservation does not comes
forward in giving a helping hand to these farmers who tries to
support the interest of the global conservationists. Rather than anything else, compensating farmers crops and domestic loss will mean who much conversationists care.</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Only Nu500,000
from government(as reported in the MoAF website) was allocated just this time for compensation but international agencies are interested in research and not really conservation. If conservation is the key, they need to help their true partners, the farmer. What if they start to do what they should? do we throw them one after another in jail for protecting their livelihood? Why not step in and be the compensating agency to those poor farmers
who loses all what they have for what we call conservation? Isn't this one of the factors that is
challenging poverty reduction?</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Over 2200 animals
have lost in past 10 years in Bhutan according to the figures
released on the MoAF's website, all that belongs to poor farmers in
remotes corners and nomads living in high mountains. And when these
cats pray on the yaks, every kill that counts from 5 to over 10
becomes a property of one poor family. Who is taking this note?</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
would say if you can't support these poor villagers, the farmers are
worth defending their own survival and livelihoods than to support an
interest which does not belong to them. Conservation programs have lots of money for research, collaring the animals, documenting and hell lots of other activities, but they have no money to compensate the loss of properties of a farmer. How fair is this?</span></div>
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<i>Can we add a legal provision in wild life conservation act that the conservation
should not happen at the cost of a farmer's livelihoods or just one
provision that shall say a farmer who losses its property to wild
animals be compensated by the concerned agency to its actual value?</i></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
Wild life
conservationists love wild life and puts interest in wild life
conservation. At the same time these farmers knows about their
domestic animals as much as you know about the wild animals and loves
them as much as you do.
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
So if
conservationists take their own means to protect their loving animals, why cant these
poor farmers take up measures to protect their loving feeders of
their family.
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When these poor farmers are
supporting because the government law backs the global conservationists. Can that be rewarded with at lest a compensation worth to what they
lose. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-65900680060239806352012-07-08T04:20:00.001-07:002012-07-08T04:25:04.635-07:00Heat waves in America: Who is responsible?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">N</span>ews of flood in Russia, and heat wave
in America is so painful, bitter and worrying it should be for the world and its leaders.<br />
<br />
It is the natural warning of what we are doing to it.<br />
<br />
I am sorry for the people of the countries
but I also think that it is an indication that a government shall not
only commit economic development but future sustainability of wealth
with pristine environment for a better climatic conditions.</div>
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I might be so rude to say that such
climatic conditions shall occur more frequently for those big
countries who do not commit and do much for environmental protection
and carbon reduction. Because this might at least be the better
reason for such countries to give a second thought for a revisit in
their developmental polices.</div>
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Bhutan's Himalayan glacier have been
proven to be melting and glacier lake out burst is the serious
concern of environmental disaster in this small kingdom, but it shall
not only be Bhutan, all those countries at the foot hills.</div>
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It is because of the global warming,
and who is emitting the most of the carbon gases that causes the
global warming? I hope you know. The economic powers and giants that
does not bother environmental concerns as much as they bother their
economic crisis.
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Economic crisis might be giving you a
blow that empties slows down your wealth but environmental crisis
would be a world disaster that would have the power to end the lives
at one go.</div>
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Heat wave is even killing peoples in
such a developed country like America. Government notifies its people
to be careful but it government notified to be more careful. It may
not be because government is the people holding the seats at a office
in the government and those people would rather feel more safe with
luxurious apartments equipped with all kind of safety measures.
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
But, there are natural forces if yo
don't take their notifications serious that can penetrate even the
best safety measures put in.</div>
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Or may be people suffering from all
such calamities shall make their government responsible because it is
their policies that had this disasters. But no american so far nor
chines, not Rusians, and not even the britisher has took up to the
streets to protest their government's negligence of environmental
protection...! </div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-53608784297243655692012-06-21T22:50:00.001-07:002012-06-27T01:36:30.306-07:00The words I hate....!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Th</span>e distrust and disrespect is the
problem that keeps world away from the constant peace, but often with
disruption.</div>
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Regionalism was the principle cause for
distrust and disrespect, while fueling pride and ego. Why would this
not be in the global world, but this can be seen even in a tiny
country like Bhutan.<br />
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But being small has an advantage that
it did not much become a problem while things are taken into
granted.<br />
<br />
Yet, deep inside is a problem, if we don't like some one to call some thing that way, no others would love too.<br />
<br />
The problem might not have been spoken but would have hurt some one deep inside that would gradually turn into a hatred.</div>
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Ngalop, for the people of Western
Bhutan, Sharchop, for the eastern people and most heart bitting is
this word, JAGA for the Lhotsam peoples. Actually JAGA means the
people of JAGAR, and JAGAR is the Dzongkha and Tibetan name for
India. Which is not appropriate for a Bhutanese. I never call and I feel pitty when I
see some people call our fellow citizens with that name. The word in
my view is racially divisive.</div>
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Why do we have to say nganglop, a man
from paro can be called parop, Haap, or Bumthap, Tashigangpa. Why
can't we rephrase and say, he was from Samtse rather than saying a
Lhotsampa imbay. These terms Nganglop, Sharchop, Jaga, Lhotsampa are in my view incorrect for a country that love peace and unity.</div>
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Another sad word our people insanely
call is Napali. A Nepali is the citizen of Nepal, a Bhutanese citizen
living in Lhotsam is a Bhutanese and not a Nepali unless he/she
claims itself a Nepali. Why would we want to divide if united is a
the best way of living and UNITY is must in this degenerating world
when the world is facing problems.</div>
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As far as some one is not a worse man,
even a criminal is a good man. If one is never a good man, even being
a son of noble family would make no sense. A criminal prince is a criminal and not a noble while a generous sweeper is a noble man indeed. So how do we jude who is
noble and who is not!</div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-50719207718721262112012-05-31T20:10:00.000-07:002012-05-31T22:56:28.519-07:00RTI: can't it be for the rural benefit?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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RTI would definitely help the rural
peoples but if only such provisions are put in place in the act.
For instance to take up on one example. There are as as many rural
individuals and households whose private lands had to be surrendered
for developmental works mostly for road construction, school
extension/new construction and hospital and Basic Health Unit (BHU)
constructions. But they are still awaiting for the replacement, some
are as old as more then a decade, yet unresolved even today.</div>
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Why is so long delayed for their right?
Right that it was their private property taken by government and does
that mean government authorities do not like resolving like they
would have done if it was one of their own's?</div>
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The information to such cases and what
the authorities are doing and why was that delayed is denied. There
is no information and concrete information as and who the concerned
authorities are resolving the issues. The only thing that dzongkhag
officials do is visit the places often for discussion but without
solution which is by all means an advantage for them because it is an
income of DSA which helps them keep their family alive without having
to put their hand on the monthly salary. Am I wrong? Check the
accounts of the dzongkhag officials and most of them ahve high DSA
claims?</div>
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The RTI would I think not only ease
flow of public informations but speed up the issues that are stuck to
stand still frlm the lack of proper flow of information right to
information. Ask those people who are awaiting the land substitution
and compensations for their private lands taken by the government,
most of them would say we don't know what the dzongkhag is doing. But
a good observer would say they are making tours.... lolz.
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But with RTI act a legal suit can be
filed against the authorities and also the act would guide with clear
directions as on how to persuade your right. For instance I being
from Butmthang, I know some cases that are almost a decade old now
yet unresolved. In one case a land was taken by the government almost
in a forceful manner without the consent of the land owner and yet he
does not gets the land substitution and the crop compensation for not
having allowed to cultivate for a decade since the land was taken for
the school.
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These owners of lands are still hoping
but nothing is happening. And beside the awful thing here is that the
authorities or as they say by law denies to replace the land
equivalent to the worth of the land taken and recommends to find from
some where around the hill sides.
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The year 2012 is already nearing end.
Who is going to provide them the clear information on what s going to
happen to the land they have surrendered. Some wanted a land that
would value the as same as the land they had to surrender and the
government or the officials handling are not willing to replace with
what the owners demand. When is this going to end. May be with an RTI
act. I suppose.
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I am sorry if I am being so ridiculous
and out of context here.... but it is just an individual thought. </div>
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08214584426955226926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5809090038987437549.post-82085519555878724342012-05-28T00:51:00.002-07:002012-05-28T01:12:29.755-07:00Traditional conservation can it be for economic boom..?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Loss of traditional structures an economic disaster in making, Dont you think so?</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpCC53jZeKoX_NAWoXZjJD7pisqjMKSL9HqApuRCwrqt0Dsa1xkiY5z95_mF-4mUICH5tLeJW0_kASAKzElqdyL-lioV4rRa9L5MqwfXoTcUdi34yVks5vrE0QFOn1kqau8HBRfHN59U/s1600/the-hotel-with-traditional.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZpCC53jZeKoX_NAWoXZjJD7pisqjMKSL9HqApuRCwrqt0Dsa1xkiY5z95_mF-4mUICH5tLeJW0_kASAKzElqdyL-lioV4rRa9L5MqwfXoTcUdi34yVks5vrE0QFOn1kqau8HBRfHN59U/s320/the-hotel-with-traditional.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he Rupee crunch in shooting, I think
is because of the adaption of modern culture into our housing and
construction boom, mainly the housing to be precise.</div>
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If this is not all the one, I believe it is the one of the main cause.
</div>
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How many aspects of imports does it
accompany, the labour import and the materials of different kind that
contributes to unemployment and slashing the local products and local
traditional structures.</div>
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Had we been in our own nation sticked
to our own traditional ways but with revolution ofcourse, it would
not have been such a economic disaster in making.</div>
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Take an example of construction in
Bumthang Dzognkha for instance, only imported materials they use in
their construction of building is materials for toilet and
electricity yet there are such a magnificent traditional structures
standing unique suiting the Bhutanese way.</div>
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And on the other hand, those builders
are the locals who are mostly engaged from eastern parts of the
country, some even as young as in their early 20's assisting the
elder zows while picking up the skills from them. Providing income
for the locals as well as providing opportunity for younger's an
opportunity and limiting the outflow of the money we have.</div>
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Isn't it in the best interest of
Bhutan's economic self reliance?
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And who started the borrowed modern
structures of buildings that led to such a massive outflow of money.
The Big bosses, who did not care the Big bosses, the bureaucrats.
Because they are the most authoritative figures until the recent
democracy.</div>
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One may argue in the changing this
would have been needed, but Bumthang is changing with in our own
traditional ways, with traditional structures that did not need much
rupee to be spent and so why cant any other be the same.
</div>
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Bumthang also have adopted not to allow
any untraditional structures, shall move with the same and
authorities and need be a legal back up also should be provided. I
Think a legal back need to be in place because a company or an
individuals like the Aman, that have succeeded in placing a totally
untraditional structures needs to be taken care.</div>
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Such a simple policy couldn't it be so
positive for our economic drive while it also serve well in the best
interest of traditional conservation. Using just the Stone, Wood and
cement that we have from within, but with out lots of metals that
needs Indian labours to work on.</div>
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