Location of Bumthang dzongkhag within Bhutan

Bumthang is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. It is the most historic dzongkhag if the number of ancient temples and sacred sites is counted. Bumthang consists of the four mountain valleys of Ura, Chumey, Tang and Choekhor (also known as Bumthang valley), although occasionally the entire district is referred to as Bumthang valley. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links BhutanBhumthang. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links BhutanBhumthang. ... Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (dzongkhag, singular and plural): Bumthang Chukha (old spelling Chhukha) Dagana Gasa Haa Lhuntse (old spelling Lhuntshi) Mongar Paro Pemagatshel (old spelling Pemagatsel) Punakha Samdrup Jongkhar Samtse (old spelling Samchi) Sarpang Thimphu Trashigang (old spelling Tashigang) Trashiyangste Trongsa (old spelling Tongsa) Tsirang (old spelling Chirang...

Bumthang is also the name of the language spoken there. It is a Tibeto-Burman language closely related to Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan. Sino-Tibetan languages form a language family of about 250 languages of East Asia, in number of speakers worldwide second only to Indo-European. ... Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language from Bhutan. ...

"Bumthang" directly translates as "beautiful field". "Thang" means field or flat place, and "Bum" is said be an appreviation of either "bumpa" (a vessel for holy water, thus describing the shape and nature of the valley), or "bum" ("girl", indicating this is the valley of beautiful girls).

Cultural and historic sites in the dzongkhag include:

• Mebar Tsho (Burning Lake), where sacred scriptures hidden by Guru Rimpoche in the 8th century where later recovered by Pema Lingpa in the 15th century
• Kurje Monastery
• Jakar Dzong, adjacent to the main town of Jakar
• Jambay Lhakhang, one of the two most ancient temples of Bhutan, built in the 7th century by Songtsen Gampo, the king of Tibet.
• Tamshing Lhakhang, the most important Nyingmapa temple in the country

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The language of Bumthang is Bumthangkha which is partially comprehensible to speakers of Dzongkha, the national language which originated in valleys to the west of Bumthang. Each valley speaks its own dialect, and the remnants of the Kheng kingdom to the south in Zhemgang speak Khengkha which may be classified as a dialect of Bumthangka. Dzongkha is a Sino-Tibetan language from Bhutan. ... Zhemgang, previously Shemgang, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. ...

Bumthang is divided into four gewogs: A gewog (Dzongkha block) refers to a group of villages in Bhutan and thus forms an intermediate geographic administrative unit between village and dzongkhag. ...

• Chhume Gewog
• Choekor Gewog
• Tang Gewog
• Ura Gewog

See also

• Districts of Bhutan

Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (dzongkhag, singular and plural): Bumthang Chukha (old spelling Chhukha) Dagana Gasa Haa Lhuntse (old spelling Lhuntshi) Mongar Paro Pemagatshel (old spelling Pemagatsel) Punakha Samdrup Jongkhar Samtse (old spelling Samchi) Sarpang Thimphu Trashigang (old spelling Tashigang) Trashiyangste Trongsa (old spelling Tongsa) Tsirang (old spelling Chirang...

External links

• Official Dzongkhag profile With a map of gewogs
• Five year plan 2002-2007
• SIL Ethnologue entry on Bumthangka

Districts of Bhutan

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