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Bhutan·festival · temple
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan
Logs of chopped firewood, piled up in planning and preparation for winter, in Bumthang, Bhutan.
Bhutan·hills · farmland
Bumthang District is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is the most historic dzongkhag if the number of ancient temples and sacred sites is counted.
Bhutan
The Beautiful Wangdicholing Guest House in unique Bhutanese architecture is a small Bhutanese style guest house located in the Bumthang District.
Bhutan·hills · farmland
Briar rose bushes growing alongside the fast-flowing rapids of the river in Bumthang. Bumthang District (Dzongkha: བུམ་ཐང་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Bum-thang rzong-khag) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan.
Bhutan·festival · temple
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·temple · festival
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·hills · farmland
The bright yellow Forsythia shrubs of central Bhutan's Bumthang valley which is further divided up into four valleys. Seen here from Wangdichholing resort on the southern slopes of Bumthang's valley.
Bhutan·festival
Kurjey Tsechu festival is a one day event held in the front of Kurjey temple complex in Jakar at Bumthang. It is an important festival for the local people of Bumthang and for the rest of Bhutan as well.
Bhutan·hills · ceremony
Bhutanese prayer flags lined up at Bumthang village in Bhutan. Bumthang District is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is the most historic dzongkhag if the number of ancient temples and sacred sites is counted.
Bhutan·temple · festival
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·hills · coastline
This video shows mountain trees gently playing along with the breeze with astounding clouds in the background. The mountains of Bhutan are some of the most prominent natural geographic features of the kingdom.
Bhutan
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is an annual plant of the aster or sunflower family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leaf vegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds.
Bhutan·festival · temple
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·festival · temple
Women and children gathered at the temple to for blessings and to watch the masked dance. The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district.
Bhutan·festival · temple
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·temple · festival
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·river
Bumthang River (also known as Murchangphy Chhu) is a river in Bhutan. It joins the Tongsa Chhu or Mangde Chhu in southern Bhutan and the combined stream flows into the Manas River.
Bhutan·village · architecture
Traditional Bhutanese houses serve as a home or residential dwelling for the family, a shelter for domestic livestock, a place for weaving and other household activities and also a religious space.
Bhutan·music
People of Jakar and Kurjey attend the Kurjey Tsechu in Bumthang, Bhutan's central green pasturage valley, to pay obeisance to Guru Rimpoche / Rinpoche, who brought Buddhism to Bhutan.
Bhutan·festival · temple
The festival takes place at Kurjey Temple, located at Kurjey in the Chokhor valley in Bumthang district. It is a 15 minute drive from Chamkhar town to arrive at the temple grounds.
Bhutan·hills · farmland
Bumthang District is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is the most historic dzongkhag if the number of ancient temples and sacred sites is counted.
Bhutan·hills
Bumthang valley is the religious heartland of the nation and home to some of its oldest Buddhist temples and monasteries. The important aspect of life in Bumthang is the religious practice.
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