Centre for Bhutan & GNH Studies - Fifth International Conference
Join us for the Fifth International Conference on Vajrayāna Buddhism on Science, Mindfulness, and Meditation, featuring philosophers, meditation masters, scientists, and practitioners from 3-6 June 2025 in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Journal of Bhutan Studies, Vol.45, Winter 2021 38 initiatives as separate endeavours and lapses into ‘“no alternatives” fatalism’, rejecting growth of all kinds (Stirling, 2016a). Degrowth advocates thus give little regard to GNH on the grounds that it does not …
Journal of Bhutan Studies, Vol 40, Summer 2019 108 incidence of suicide story, while the remaining two newspapers did not report on suicide during the study period. Figure 1: Number of suicide reporting in various newspapers from 2013-2018 Table 3 presents findings across the 10 assessment criteria.
American experience and that of the Kingdom of Bhutan, whose nascent organization of storytelling practices for purposes of national cultural well-being is what brings us
To project the economic return on Fab Bhutan Challenge, an approach to assessing the return on innovation investments developed by Kremer et al. (2021) is adapted.
This paper will look at the correlation between the values expressed by Bhutan’s citizens of themselves and their nation and the traditional folklore of Bhutan, seeking to discover the similarities and differences between the values of the people
Mathou, Thierry, The Politics of Bhutan: change in continuity, Journal of Bhutan Studies, vol. 2 no. 2 (Winter 2000), pp. 250-62, refers to kidu as a “welfare system” (p. 233 and 236).
Many studies have also shown that the mass media in Bhutan has become dynamic in terms of the social, political, economic, and environmental situation in the last two decades.
Karmapa Choying Dorje into exile in Bhutan ca. 1645, Tsang Khenchen stayed in the region at the behest of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, who was in the midst of consolidating the nascent nation.
We have noted that it had been the traditional trend in Bhutan. This trend began to change very rapidly in favour of Bengal since 1915-16. By the end of the study period we find that Bengal overpowered its rivals in competition. In that year, Bhutan’s intake was …