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Bhutan.
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ISBN: 906832358X Year: 1998 Volume: *60 Publisher: Amsterdam KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen)


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Meeting the "other" : living in the present : Gender and Sustainability in Bhutan : een reflectief onderzoek naar gender, duurzaamheid in Bhutan. Gebaseerd op 17 jaar ervaringen met een premoderne samenleving in transitie naar een moderne samenleving
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ISBN: 9789059722613 Year: 2008


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Journal of Bhutan studies.
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ISSN: 16084128 Year: 1999 Publisher: Thimphu, Bhutan : Centre for Bhutan Studies,


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Connecting the disconnected : coping strategies of the financially excluded in Bhutan
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ISBN: 0821398717 0821398342 9780821398340 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Connecting the Disconnected presents the findings of the field research designed to evaluate financial practices and strategies among urban and rural Bhutanese households. The study was commissioned in 2012 by the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan and the World Bank to provide qualitative evidence to the country's Financial Inclusion Policy. The book explores where, how, and why diff erent demographic groups save, borrow, send remittances, and insure themselves; it also evaluates the potential for innovations to extend fi nancial inclusion.Analysis of results from focus group discussions and


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Tantric state : a Buddhist approach to democracy and development in Bhutan
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ISBN: 019084342X 0190843403 0190843411 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Bhutan is the only mixed-market, democratic nation in the world founded on Buddhist principles and values, rather than Western-liberal ones. This text explains Bhutan's unique model of democracy and economic development, its philosophical foundations and its practical relevance as an alternative approach to today's political and economic challenges.

Bhutan : traditions and changes
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ISBN: 1282396919 9786612396915 9047420233 9789047420231 9789004155510 9004155511 9781282396913 6612396911 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This illustrated volume presents a wide variety of themes from the historical and modern periods of Bhutan, illustrating change and adaptation to new realities. Topics covered include the exploration of early history, Buddhism and the lives of Bhutanese Buddhist saints, the changing role of local, non-Buddhist religious practitioners in today’s society, traditional law and the emergence of a modern legal system, and the seasonal celebrations of an aristocratic family from central Bhutan. The book will be of special interest to students of early Tibetan history, legal history, comparative sociology and cultural anthropology of the Himalayan regions.


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Their footprints remain : biomedical beginnings across the Indo-Tibetan frontier
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ISBN: 1281284246 9786611284244 9048501245 9053565183 9789048501243 9781281284242 9789053565186 6611284249 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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By the end of the 19th century, British imperial medical officers and Christian medical missionaries had introduced Western medicine to Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan. Their Footprints Remain uses archival sources, personal letters, diaries, and oral sources in order to tell the fascinating story of how this once-new medical system became imbedded in the Himalayas. Of interest to anyone with an interest in medical history and anthropology, as well as the Himalayan world, this volume not only identifies the individuals involved and describes how they helped to spread this form of imperialist medicine, but also discusses its reception by a local people whose own medical practices were based on an entirely different understanding of the world.

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Medicine --- History --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Sikkim (India) --- Bhutan --- History. --- Health Workforce --- Bhoutan --- Bhotan --- Boutan --- Bootan --- ʼBrug-yul --- Druk-yul --- Phūthān --- Kingdom of Bhutan --- ʼBrug Rgyal-khab --- Dru Gäkhap --- Bhoetan --- بوتان --- Būtān --- Reino de Bután --- Botan --- Vutã --- Tetã Vutã --- Butan Krallığı --- Бутан --- Бутан Короллеге --- Butan Korollege --- Каралеўства Бутан --- Karaleŭstva Butan --- Кралство Бутан --- Kralstvo Butan --- Kraljevina Butan --- Бутан патшалăхĕ --- Butan patshalăkhĕ --- Bhútánské království --- Teyrnas Bhutan --- Kongedømmet Bhutan --- Königreich Bhutan --- Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh Bikéyah --- Bhutani Kuningriik --- Μπουτάν --- Βασίλειο του Μπουτάν --- Vasileio tou Boutan --- Butano --- Bhutano --- Reĝlando Butano --- Bhutango Erresuma --- Kongaríkið Bhutan --- Kongsríkið Butan --- Royaume du Bhoutan --- An Bhútain --- Bhútain --- Ríocht na Bútáine --- Rìoghachd Bhutàin --- Бутанмудин Нутг --- Butanmudin Nutg --- 부탄 --- Put'an --- Butana --- Sikhim (India) --- Sikkim --- Sikkima (India) --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Tibet --- TAR (China) --- Bhutan. --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China) --- culture and instituten --- culture and institutions --- geschiedenis --- history, geography, and auxiliary disciplines


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Politics of Gross National Happiness : Governance and Development in Bhutan
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ISBN: 3319653881 3319653873 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores the practices of governance in Bhutan and how they shape the implementation of the country’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) development strategy. The author examines whether Bhutan’s innovative GNH governance framework successfully navigates competing power dynamics and generates the intended human development outcomes of Gross National Happiness. The analysis is structured around a comparison of the implementation of four GNH development policies – tourism, media, farm roads and human/wildlife conflict – and their larger implications on power, governance and the human development paradigm in Bhutan and beyond. .

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Bhutan --- Politics and government. --- Bhoutan --- Bhotan --- Boutan --- Bootan --- ʼBrug-yul --- Druk-yul --- Phūthān --- Kingdom of Bhutan --- ʼBrug Rgyal-khab --- Dru Gäkhap --- Bhoetan --- بوتان --- Būtān --- Reino de Bután --- Botan --- Vutã --- Tetã Vutã --- Butan Krallığı --- Бутан --- Бутан Короллеге --- Butan Korollege --- Каралеўства Бутан --- Karaleŭstva Butan --- Кралство Бутан --- Kralstvo Butan --- Kraljevina Butan --- Бутан патшалăхĕ --- Butan patshalăkhĕ --- Bhútánské království --- Teyrnas Bhutan --- Kongedømmet Bhutan --- Königreich Bhutan --- Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh Bikéyah --- Bhutani Kuningriik --- Μπουτάν --- Βασίλειο του Μπουτάν --- Vasileio tou Boutan --- Butano --- Bhutano --- Reĝlando Butano --- Bhutango Erresuma --- Kongaríkið Bhutan --- Kongsríkið Butan --- Royaume du Bhoutan --- An Bhútain --- Bhútain --- Ríocht na Bútáine --- Rìoghachd Bhutàin --- Бутанмудин Нутг --- Butanmudin Nutg --- 부탄 --- Put'an --- Butana --- Asia-Politics and government. --- Political science. --- Economic policy. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Cultural policy. --- Economic development. --- Social change. --- Asian Politics. --- Governance and Government. --- Development Policy. --- Asian Culture. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Development and Social Change. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Government policy --- Asia—Politics and government. --- Ethnology—Asia.


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Fabric of Life - Textile Arts in Bhutan.
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ISBN: 311042861X 9783110428612 9783110428735 3110428733 3110428628 3110437953 Year: 2015 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Bhutan, das letzte buddhistische Königreich im Himalaya, konnte durch seine abgeschiedene Gebirgslage, die zurückhaltende Außenpolitik und die Grundprinzipien des Buddhismus bis heute eine beachtenswerte Textilkunst bewahren, die mit allen Aspekten des Lebens verwoben ist. Karin Altmann stellt Bhutans Textilien in ihrer Vielfalt vor: sie sind Kleidung und Alltagsobjekt, Währung und Handelsware, markieren als Geschenke wichtige Ereignisse im Laufe eines Lebens und bezeugen den sozialen Status einer Person. Sie sind aber auch integraler Bestandteil bei sakralen Festen, Tänzen und Ritualen, gewähren einen Einblick in die mystische und religiöse Weltanschauung der bhutanischen Bevölkerung und reflektieren zugleich die Konzeption von Gender in der bhutanischen Gesellschaft. Das Buch erzählt so auch die Geschichte eines Landes, das in einer globalisierten Welt sensibel nach einer Balance zwischen Tradition und Fortschritt sucht. This extensive work dedicated to the unique textile art of Bhutan is an impressive illustration of how closely art, spirituality, and life are interwoven in the last of the Buddhist kingdoms in the Himalayas. It gives new insight into Bhutanese cosmology, worldview, culture, and society, which is associated with a variety of historical, philosophical, religious, social, and artistic perspectives. The remote mountain location, low-key foreign policy, and basic principles of Buddhism has made it possible for Bhutan, the last of the Buddhist kingdoms in the Himalayas, to preserve a remarkable form of textile art that is interwoven with all aspects of life. Karin Altmann shows us Bhutan textiles in their diversity: they are clothes and everyday objects, currency and commodity, mark important events as gifts during life, and are testament to the social status of a person. But they are also an integral aspect of religious festivals, dances, and rituals that provide insight into the mystical and religious beliefs of the Bhutanese people, and reflect the concept of gender in Bhutanese society. The book also tells the story of a country that is searching for a sensitive balance between tradition and progress in a globalized world.

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Textile fabrics, Bhutanese. --- Textile fabrics --- Textile crafts --- Fabric crafts --- Textile arts --- Textile fiber crafts --- Handicraft --- Fancy work --- Fiberwork --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Bhutan textile fabrics --- Bhutanese textile fabrics --- Textile fabrics, Bhutan --- Bhutan --- Bhoutan --- Bhotan --- Boutan --- Bootan --- ʼBrug-yul --- Druk-yul --- Phūthān --- Kingdom of Bhutan --- ʼBrug Rgyal-khab --- Dru Gäkhap --- Bhoetan --- بوتان --- Būtān --- Reino de Bután --- Botan --- Vutã --- Tetã Vutã --- Butan Krallığı --- Бутан --- Бутан Короллеге --- Butan Korollege --- Каралеўства Бутан --- Karaleŭstva Butan --- Кралство Бутан --- Kralstvo Butan --- Kraljevina Butan --- Бутан патшалăхĕ --- Butan patshalăkhĕ --- Bhútánské království --- Teyrnas Bhutan --- Kongedømmet Bhutan --- Königreich Bhutan --- Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh Bikéyah --- Bhutani Kuningriik --- Μπουτάν --- Βασίλειο του Μπουτάν --- Vasileio tou Boutan --- Butano --- Bhutano --- Reĝlando Butano --- Bhutango Erresuma --- Kongaríkið Bhutan --- Kongsríkið Butan --- Royaume du Bhoutan --- An Bhútain --- Bhútain --- Ríocht na Bútáine --- Rìoghachd Bhutàin --- Бутанмудин Нутг --- Butanmudin Nutg --- 부탄 --- Put'an --- Butana --- Social life and customs.

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