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. Image File history File links BhutanBhumthang. ... 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" 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:

• Membar 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

Bumthang farms yield buckwheat, dairy products, honey, and apples among other products. Guru Rinpoche, the patron saint of Sikkim. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... Courtyard of Konchogsum Lhakhang in Bumthang where Pema Lingpa is said to have placed this stone plug over the subterranean lake below the temple Pema Lingpa (1450-1521) is perhaps the most famous saint of the most venerable school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Nyingma school. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... Kurjey Monastery is located in the beautiful valley of Bumthang in Bhutan. ... The 7th century is the period from 601 - 700 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era. ... A statue of Emperor Srong-rtsan Sgam-po in his meditation cave at Yerpa Songtsen Gampo (སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོ་ Wylie: Srong-btsan Sgam-po) (604–650 CE) was the thirty-third king of the Yarlung Dynasty of Tibet. ... The Nyingma tradition is one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. ... Binomial name Fagopyrum esculentum Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is a plant in the genus Fagopyrum (sometimes merged into genus Polygonum) in the family Polygonaceae. ... Dairy products are generally defined as foodstuffs produced from milk. ... Honey honey comb A capped frame of honeycomb Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by honeybees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. ... For other uses, see Apple (disambiguation). ...

The language spoken in the Bumthang district is known as Bumthangkha. It is a Tibeto-Burman language closely related to Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan. Bumthangkha is partially comprehensible to speakers of Dzongkha, which originated in valleys to the west of Bumthang. Each of the four valleys of Bumthang has 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. 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 the national language of the Kingdom of Bhutan. ... Dzongkha is the national language of the Kingdom of 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
Bumthang | Chukha | Dagana | Gasa | Haa | Lhuntse | Mongar | Paro | Pemagatshel | Punakha | Samdrup Jongkhar | Samtse | Sarpang | Thimphu | Trashigang | Trashiyangste | Trongsa | Tsirang | Wangdue Phodrang | Zhemgang