Coinciding with the descent Water Day-ཁྲུས་འབབ་ my trip to Dorji-tse lhakhang is the joyful moment. Right after breakfast, we started our journey to Dorji-tse lhakhang, to pay our homage and devotion to protecting deity. The Lhakhang was founded by the Chochung, on divine instruction from the protecting deity. I have a special attachment to this temple. I believed, trust and worship existing of divine instruction old tradition of Buddhist practice…
Author: Sangay Phuntshog
Sangay Phuntshog is a lecturer at Trongsa's College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS). He has more than nine years of experience teaching in higher education. He has also served as a program leader for the BA in Bhutan and Himalayan Studies Program for the past four years. He teaches in Himalayan Studies, with an emphasis on oral history, basic research methodologies, history, politics, cultural heritage, GNH, and historiography.
He is an anthophilous and religious person who enjoys playing games and hiking with friends and family outside of work.
We are born without title. So nothing is permanent.
I am born without a title. So I will die without a title. What we are doing in a daily is not a permanent. It can be a change because of natural calamities or sometimes by the authority for indifference. We can see that many people around us are indifference in nature. Their hopes, desires, wishes, prayers and expectations are always indifference. In a rare case likely to have like-minded…
A Happy Blessed Water Day༼ཁྲུས་འབབ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས༽
Tomorrow is Thrulbab another special day for the Bhutanese people to enjoy. According to Dr Phuntsho, K. (2018) “it literally means descent of blessed water and refers to the blessing which falls on the waters on earth.” This explains that Trhuebab do not link with the rainy season, nor that of English translation is correct as Blessed Rainy Day. Thus, Trthuebab means blessed drops of water. In our oral tradition,…
A three days Blended Learning and Action Research workshop concluded today.
Bhutan and the Himalayan Research Center (BHRC) organised blended learning (BL) and action research (AR) at CLCS. The three days’ training is facilitated by Dr. Kesang Sherub, former Dean of Research and Industrial Linkages (DRIL) Paro College of Education. During the opening remarks of the training Dean of Research and Industrial Linkages (DRIL) Lop Ngawang Jamtsho said, this workshop is to enhances the skills of action research in classroom teaching-learning…
I am now Lham Tashi
This morning just visited purposefully to seek a blessing from (དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ) Palden Lhamo, a glorious Goddess Goenkhang at Trongsa Chhorkor Rabtse Dzong. She is the wrathful deity and the protecting female deity of Bhutan. Goenkhang is almost 400 years old and is one among the main sacred Goenkhang at Trongsa Chhorkor Rabtse Dzong. Today onwards, I submitted and offered my Lu-ngag-yig-sum (body, mind, and speech) to protecting deity and adopted her…
Not likely to be free for sometime
The psychological stress and depression I am going through just so long is likely to say goodbye by tomorrow. I talked several occasions to Mr. Stress and Mr. Depression to cooperate with me by now. If two party is not willing to listen, condition would be extremely different. Till date two party never obeyed and abided by what I suggested. Now agreement would be signed between three parties not to…
Ozer Celebrate’s his first birthday! “Happy Birthday Ozer”
Today is occasion to celebrate and rejoice in my life. I don’t have words to describe what I feel for you. Your present’s is the best thing that ever happened in my life. Happy Birthday dear son! I་take occasion to wish and pray for the Buddhas’ of all the time (དུས་གསུམ་གྱི་སངྱས་དང་བྱང་ཆུབ་དཔའ) to blessed Ozer to achieve what your ‘Apa’ could not do in this life. May you fulfill every wishes…
Shall we sit and dream, or shall we work hard and reap the benefits?
I wonder time and again are we doing enough work. Are we listening enough to pick up what is told to do. Are we doing task according to what we are dreaming and aspiring to carry out now and in the future. This opinion has offered me constantly in awaking mood. On reflecting myself, in days gone by I grieve a lot for wasting 50% of life and strength that…
The Trends towards scientific history
Q. Outline the trends towards scientific history in modern times The most significant trend in the historical writing of the modern times was the development of scientific history. With the growth of rationalism, theological conception lost its ground, sources came in for a critical study and nature of interpretation received due consideration. Presentation and style too assumed importance. Contributions made by more of writers and thinkers worked towards consolidating the…
Scientific Trends in Western Historical Writings
Q. Find out various schools and approaches in western scientific historiography? The philosophers of the Enlightenment treated the past as barbarian and ignore it as such. Also they considered human nature as uniform and static. These attitudes need to be changed so that further progress in historical writing could be attained. Romantic idealism, utilitarianism, materialistic interpretation and positivism contributed to changes in these approaches to the study of history. They…