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The films are all produced in Dzongkha language, the national language of Bhutan. Bhutanese films have gained a vast popularity amongst its citizens in the recent times due to various available multi media. Dzongkha movies contain many songs for audience attentions. Bhutanese movies are now shot in countries as far away as America and Australia.
Ap Bokto is a 2014 Bhutanese animated film produced and directed by Karma Dhendup under Athang Animation Studio. It is the first computer animated film in Bhutan and the first animated film to be based on a Bhutanese folk tale. The plot revolves around Ap Bokto who encounters and outwits several wild animals whose goal is to make him as their meal.
Ngawang Jamphel (born 1992), Bhutanese footballer Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (1910–2009), Tibetan senior official with various military and political responsibilities Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga (born 1945), the 41st Sakya Trizin, the throne holder of the Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism 1952–2017
The Bhutanese lama Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche is a well-known filmmaker, who produced and directed The Cup and Travellers and Magicians. While The Cup was shot in a Tibetan monastery in northern India, Travellers and Magicians was the first feature film to be filmed entirely in Bhutan, with a cast consisting entirely of Bhutanese people ...
Lyonpo Jigme Yoser Thinley (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་འཕྲིན་ལས་; Wylie: 'Jigs-med 'Od-zer 'Phrin-las) (born 9 September 1952) [1] is a Bhutanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Bhutan for three nonconsecutive terms, from 20 July 1998 to 9 July 1999, 30 August 2003 to 18 August 2004 and 9 April 2008 to 28 April 2013.
A memorial of Thinley Norbu Rinpoche has been built on the site of his cremation in Paro, Bhutan, by his son Dungse Garab Rinpoche. Since Thinley Norbu's death in 2011, Kunzang Gatshal has been guided by the students of White Lotus School, his sons Garab Dorje Rinpoche and Jampal Dorje Rinpoche, and other family members.
Thinley Dorji (born 1995), Bhutanese international footballer; Thinley Dorji (archer), Bhutanese Olympic archer; Thinley Norbu (1931–2011), modern teacher in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and patron of the Vajrayana Foundation; Alak Jigme Thinley Lhundup Rinpoche (1938–2012), Tibetan Tulku, former speaker of the Tibetan ...
Within this political landscape, the Wangchuck family originated in the Bumthang region of central Bhutan. [4] The family belongs to the Nyö clan, and is descended from Pema Lingpa, a Bhutanese Nyingmapa saint. The Nyö clan emerged as a local aristocracy, supplanting many older aristocratic families of Tibetan origin that sided with Tibet ...