 Location of Haa dzongkhag within Bhutan Haa (alternative spelling Ha) is one of the 20 dzongkhag or districts comprising Bhutan. Population unknown, 1137 households (FYP, 2002). 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...
Haa's major feature is the Haa Valley, a steep north-south valley with a narrow floor. Red mountain rice, potatoes, chillies, and other crops are grown on the valley floor, along terraced hillsides and in some of the more accessible side valleys. 78% of Haa is covered with forest, and forestry plays an important part in local economy. The name Haa (pronounced "hah"), as well as the more ancient name Has (pronounced "hay"), connotes esoteric hiddenness. An alternative name for the district is Hidden-Land Rice Valley. Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice refers to two species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) of grass, native to tropical and subtropical southeastern Asia and to Africa, which together provide more than one fifth of the calories consumed by humans. ...
Binomial name Solanum tuberosum L. The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is a perennial plant of the Solanaceae, or nightshade, family, grown for its starchy tuber. ...
The chile pepper (also chili or chilli; from Spanish chile) is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family (Solanaceae). ...
Esoteric knowledge is knowledge that is secret or not generally known. ...
In 2002 the valley was opened to foreign tourism, although its tourist resources remain largely undeveloped compared with Paro, Thimphu, and Bumthang districts. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...
Tourist redirects here; for the album by Athlete, see Tourist (album) Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of recreation and business, and the provision of services for this act. ...
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Location of Thimphu dzongkhag within Bhutan Thimphu (à½à½²à½˜à¼‹à½•à½´à¼‹) is the capital of Bhutan, and also the name of the surrounding valley and dzongkhag. ...
Location of Bumthang dzongkhag within Bhutan Bumthang is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. ...
Geography and Gewogs Haa lies along the western border of Bhutan. To the north it is bounded by the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. To the southwest it is bounded by the dzongkhag of Samtse, to the southeast by Chukha, and to the east by Paro dzongkhag. The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) (Tibetan: བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས་, Pö Rangyongjong; Chinese: 西藏自治区, Xīzàng Zìzhìqū), is a province-level administrative subdivision of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Samtse district is alomst three times the size of Singapore, covering an area of approximately 1500 sq. ...
Chukha, previously Chhukha, is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. ...
location of Paro dzongkhag within Bhutan. ...
The Indian Army maintains a military base in the valley to maintain security against incursions from China. The Indian Army (à¤à¤¾à¤°à¤¤à¥€à¤¯ सेना Hindi: Bhartiya Sena) is the land force of the Armed Forces of India and has the prime responsibility of conducting land-based warfare. ...
Haa is divided into five 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. ...
Mystical history of Haa
Black, White, and Haa Gonpa temples Local historians maintain that two important temples in Haa district, the Black Temple and the White Temple were built at the same time as Kyerchu Temple in Paro in the 7th century AD. The two temples can be found near each other at the sacred site known as Miri Punsum, or The Three Brother Hills. A third temple, Haa Gonpa, was built at further up the valley at the site where a lame pigeon, actually a bodhisattva in disguised form, was found by a local farmer who was drawn to the spot by a mysterious fire seen on several successive nights and by the unexplained sounds of oboes and trumpets (musical instruments closely associated with Bhutanese and Tibetan monasteries). location of Paro dzongkhag within Bhutan. ...
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Prince Siddhartha Gautama as a bodhisattva, before becoming a Buddha. ...
Modern Oboe The oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind double reed family. ...
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Buddhist monastery near Tibet A monastery is the habitation of monks. ...
During the 10th day of the 11th month of the Bhutanese calendar (see Tibetan calendar) liturgical ceremonies worshiping Amitabha Buddha are held at Haa Gonpa temple. The Tibetan calendar is a lunisolar calendar, that is, the Tibetan year is composed of either 12 or 13 lunar months, each beginning and ending with a new moon. ...
The Big Buddha in Kamakura, an image of Amitabha Amitābha (阿彌陀佛 Ch. ...
Sacred oak and the upper house Near the Black Temple there are two houses near a sacred oak tree where the local deity once appeared as a winged creature, scaring the local people (the valley is divided into a number of areas, each under the influence of a particularl local deity predating the arrival of Buddhism -- see Bön religion). The residents of the two houses gave offerings to the local deity. The local deity, now appeased, visited the upper house while neglecting the lower. The jealous owner of the lower house began an inter-house feud in which a man of the upper house was killed. Every year 11th lunar month a series of special mystical practices are performed in the upper house for a week. Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ...
A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, or sacred, held in high regard, or respected by human beings. ...
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Bön has typically been described as the shamanistic religion in Tibet before the arrival of Buddhism in the 7th century. ...
The local deity Chungdue The famous monk Pema Lingpa also documented the activities of another local deity known as Chungdue. Chungdue was responsible for meteor storms, cyclones, wildfires, rocks splitting apart, earthquakes, and a number of other mystical disasters. Fortunately the Guru Padmasambhava arrived in the late 8th century and subdued the deity. However the deity's force is not to be taken lightly. In the 15th century Chungdue decreed that the people of Ha Shogona village where not to come in contact with any followers of a certain monk in nearby Paro dzongkhag. When a young Ha man married a girl from Paro they believed no harm would come to themselves. However as they crossed a river between the two districts the knots tying her infant to her back suddenly came loose and the baby fell into the river and died. A tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere. ...
The Old Fire burning in the San Bernardino Mountains (image taken from the International Space Station) A wildfire, also known as a forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, brush fire, or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or...
Global earthquake epicenters, 1963–1998 An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earths surface. ...
Guru Rinpoche - Padmasambhava statue - near Kulu Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja) (Ch: è“®è¯ç”Ÿä¸Šå¸«; Tib: Padma Jungne), in Sanskrit meaning lotus-born, founded the Tibetan or Tantric school of Buddhism in the 8th century. ...
location of Paro dzongkhag within Bhutan. ...
Other features Also near the Black and White temples is a special chorten marking the site where an imprint of Guru Padmasambhava's body and hat may be found in a large rock. Categories: Buildings and structures stubs | Buildings and structures ...
In the Samar side-valley may be found a bridge known as Has Samarpudung. Below the bridge is the lake of a wishing cow whose stone udders can be seen in the lake.
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