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Great Buddha Dordenma

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Buddha Point at Thimphu city of Bhutan  It is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the mountains of Thimphu city, the capital of Bhutan. This monument is commonly known as Buddha Point. The primary intention for installing this Shakyamuni Buddha statue was to celebrate the 60th anniversary of fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuk. 60th Anniversary of His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuk  The construction started in 2006 and was predicted to finish in the month of October, 2010. Nevertheless, it took extra 5 year. Thus, it was completed on 25th September, 2015. The materials used for constructing Buddha Dordenma are bronze and was gilded with gold. The height of the Buddha's statue its 54 metres(1774) and the reason for the installment of Buddha's statue was highly dedicated to pass the message to the people in order to bring peace and prosperity to the world. The statue cost US$47 million while constructing. Aerosun Corporation of Najing, China, which was sponso...

Problems Faced by Bhutanese Economy

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          Issues of Stabilization in Bhutan Source In today’s generation, the whole world is all the time in a state of dynamic. As globalization has been taking place since 1820s, all across the world. None of the countries have disagreed to join the international trade as countries realized, the beauty and aura of participating in the global economy and even Bhutan followed the trend of globalization. Due to scarce resources, economistsfigured out a single country cannot produce everything by their own. Thus, to maintain the economic stability, trade was initiated world widely where countries started to exchange the ideas, cultures, money and various factors of production. However, when these things have been transacted amongst nations, economists faced an issues of imbalance in fiscal policy, monetary policy and external sectors. The disparity of fiscal policy in Bhutan is primarily, the impact of Covid-19 and the fiscal deficit in Bhutan is predicted at Nu. ...

Culture of Bhutan

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Bhutan before 1960's  Every country has its own culture and traditions, which have been preserved by our forefathers and even passed to today's generation. In order to show and also to prove vividly to the third countries and foreigners, primarily to show that we belong to a respective country/place. Likewise, in this article, we are also going to  see how good the Bhutanese culture is. 1. History of Bhutan His Majesty the 3rd Druk Gyalpo, the Father of Modern Bhutan  Bhutan ended her self-imposed isolation in 1961, when the Father of Modern Bhutan, the third Monarch, the late King His Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuk, led Bhutan on the path to modernization. Now most of you are might be wondering. Why has Bhutan been isolated before 1960's? The main reasons for Bhutan's isolation were: I. Bhutan's rugged mountains and  II. Dense forests  These two factors not only isolated Bhutan with foreign countries but also isolated Bhutanese(natives of Bhutan) with other local...