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This is a timeline of Bhutanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Bhutan and its predecessor states. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It was Buddhist literature and chronicles that began the recorded history of Bhutan. [ 6 ] In 810AD, a Buddhist saint, Padmasambhava (known in Bhutan as Guru Rimpoche and sometimes referred to as the Second Buddha), came to Bhutan from Nepal at the invitation of King Sindhu Rāja. [ 13 ]
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The other literary languages, Nepali and Lepcha, have not featured in Bhutan's own literature. In Western Bhutan the predominant language is Dzongkha, in the east it is Tshangla and along the southern belt it is Nepali. Several other important regional languages also exist. [5] Dzongkha is a descendant of Chöke (Classical Tibetan), which was ...
It was Buddhist literature and chronicles that began the recorded history of Bhutan. [ 3 ] Buddhism was propagated in earnest [ 2 ] in 746 [ 4 ] under King Sindhu Rāja ( also Künjom; [ 5 ] Sendha Gyab; Chakhar Gyalpo), an exiled Indian king who had established a government in Bumthang at Chakhar Gutho Palace.
Kunzang Choden (Dzongkha: ཀུན་བཟང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།; born 1952) [1] is a Bhutanese writer. She is the first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English. Choden was born in Bumthang District. Her parents were feudal landlords. At the age of nine, her father sent her to school in India, where she learned English. [2]
This is a list of years in Bhutan. See also the timeline of Bhutanese history . For only articles about years in Bhutan that have been written, see Category:Years in Bhutan .
Much of early Bhutanese history is unclear because most of the records were destroyed when fire ravaged the ancient capital, Punakha, in 1827. By the 10th century, Bhutan's religious history had a significant impact on its political development. Various subsects of Buddhism emerged that were patronised by the various Mongol warlords.