Life is so short and uncertain. Everyone agreed with it! No argument. But where are we heading? I am not sure whether we are civilised human beings or not. We act as if we are not at all educate people sometimes. I am a listener and will continue to be a great listener. I shall never try to object if anyone’s says it possess logic and merits to listen. If…
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.
Tashi khadar to the newly appointed DAA and the CBS coordinator by President
The President of the College, Lungtaen Gyatso offered Tashi khadar to the newly appointed Dean of Academic Affairs (DAA) and the Centre for Buddhist Studies (CBS) coordinator on 1 September 2021. The new Dean of Academic Affairs (DAA) for the College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS) is Mr Jigme Dorji. He has been appointed with the recommendation from the President’s Search Committees (PSC), and formal approval from Registrar, the…
Are ready to change or resistant to Change!
I wonder what would be the situation of our education system after decade years from now. If we are not in the constant learning mode. Things may change at any time. This is my thought. With the advance in communication technology especially social media networks, it is going to create lots of implications to the education system that was established. Its immediate impact would be on school and college/university educators.…
You will never regret by reading Serene Strength by Arun Kapur
Serene strength- The making of a Person of Substance is written by Arun Kapur. The author shares his four-decade-long journeys as a teacher and a learner. The author reflects on his journey of working in education, “a journey in which the final destination is never reached; always there is another hidden bend ahead that needs to explored; always somewhere else to go; and always something to learn”. The book’s central…
To comment and criticize is easiest job
I have dreams, aspirations, wish, and hope’s in a lifetime. So I work hard. Only a few luckiest people achieve without a hard-work and effort. There are some who in between never work hard also just fit in a system that the system can’t do away them. They neither contribute in fulfilment of institutional development nor does assigned task. This type of individual is quite risky. To me speak and…
The first-day session with students
This fall semester 2021, I am assigned to teach RES101 Basic Research Methods to BA in Language and literature programme, one of the final year sections. It was during my first day of the session while introducing the semester plan, and after that, I ask students to answer two questions in a piece of paper, “What is your understanding of term research?’ and ‘their expectation from this modules RES101?’ I…
Appointed as Centre Coordinator for BHRC: An additional responsibility
It is another opportunity for me to take additional responsibility as a new centre coordinator for Bhutan and Himalayan Research Centre in succeeding Mr. Sonam Nyenda. He was the first centre coordinator for the BHRC from 2017 till his resignation, and I will be second in line as a caretaker of centre. Prior to his current appointment, he is still serving as the Programme Leader for BA in Bhutanese…
A stifled journey that led to memorable events, April 6th -12th, 2021
I received an invitation from the Sherubtse College on April 5th, 2021, as an External Examiner to visit the college and make necessary documentation for the health of the BA in History programme. I happily accepted the offer and asked the Chief Planning officer of the Royal University of Bhutan, who was at CLCS in the meeting, if he could provide a lift to me from Takste to Sherubtse College. He…
Random thought: April 16, 2021
I heard enthusiastic news. I wish I am one of to influence a decision then. If that is true I would definitely accept it. That is what everyone is looking for. Is it really worrying/concerning? I wish if I could postulate such a position. An understanding of such an allegation is questionable. Who never knew someone is working and investing time and energy for self-grow only. All people are not…
Prostration prayer by Sakya PanditKuenga Gyaltshen
PROSTRATION PRAYER: -by Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen(1182 – 1251) ༄༅། བདག་གིས་མཆོག་གསུམ་དམ་པར་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བས། From my prostration to the foremost, the three Jewels བདག་དང་འགྲོ་ཀུན་སྡིག་སྒྲིབ་དག་པར་ཤོག ། May it purify my and others evil deeds and obscuration ལག་གཉིས་མཉམ་པར་ཐལ་མོ་སྦྱར་བ་ཡིས། ། From adjoining my both hands and palms together, ཐབས་དང་ཤེས་རབ་ཟུང་འཇུག་ཐོབ་པར་ཤོག ། May it brings Union of Wisdom and method ཐལ་མོ་སྤྱི་བོའི་གཙུག་ཏུ་སྦྱར་བ་ཡིས། ། keeping my both hand together on the top of head འོག་མིན་དགའ་ལྡན་གནས་སུ་བགྲོད་པར་ཤོག ། May this brings…