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Bhutanese legislation is created by the bicameral Parliament of Bhutan.Either the Monarch Druk Gyalpo or the non-partisan house National Council or the seat of the Government National Assembly may admit bills into Parliament to be passed as acts, with the exception of money and financial bills, which are the sole purview of the National Assembly.
The National Library of Bhutan (NLB; Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད།, romanized: Druk Gyelyong Pedzö), located in Thimphu, Bhutan, was established in 1967 for the purpose of "preservation and promotion of the rich cultural and religious heritage" of Bhutan.
"DDC's Online Dzongkha Digtionaries". Dzongkha Development Commission. - online Dzongkha-English, English-Dzongkha, Tibetan-Dzongkha, and Dzongkha-Dzongkha dictionaries. "THL's Online Tibetan Phonetics Converter". Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library. - A tool to convert Dzongkha and Tibetan script or Wylie text into Roman phonetics.
The Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs (Dzongkha: ནང་སྲིད་ལྷན་ཁག་; Wylie: nang-srid lhan-khag; "Nangsi Lhenkhag") renamed as Ministry of Home Affairs [1] is the government ministry within the Lhengye Zhungtshog (Council of Ministers) which oversees law and order; the civil administration; immigration services; the issuance of citizenship documents, and other ...
Druk Tsenden" (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཙན་དན, Dzongkha pronunciation: [ɖ(ʐ)ṳ̀e̯ t͡sén.d̥è̤n]; "The Thunder Dragon Kingdom") is the national anthem of Bhutan. Adopted in 1953, the lyrics were written by Dolop Droep Namgay and possibly translated into English by Dasho Gyaldun Thinley.
A dungkhag (Dzongkha: དྲུང་ཁག ་ drungkhak) is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a Dungpa . As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkhags in total.
The law of Bhutan derives mainly from legislation and treaties.Prior to the enactment of the Constitution, laws were enacted by fiat of the King of Bhutan.The law of Bhutan originates in the semi-theocratic Tsa Yig legal code, and was heavily influenced through the twentieth century by English common law. [1]
Jakar Dzong, representative of the distinct dzong architecture from which Dzongkha gets its name. Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [d͡zòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Tibeto-Burman language that is the official and national language of Bhutan. [3]