How To Use Bhutan In A Sentence
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_Amban_ -- we call him an Envoy of the Republic of China to Bhutan.
The Jungle Girl
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At one lantern show at Paro Dzong in Bhutan, an "accumulator" blew up scorching White's face and badly singing his eyebrow, eyelashes and moustache.
Phayul Latest News
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The contingents of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan also presented cultural items on the occasion.
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Although it is believed that the mithan and gayal are the same animal, one of this report's reviewers points out that the mithan of Bhutan are strikingly different in color, body shape, and horn structure from gayals seen in zoos in Europe and India.
1 Domesticated Banteng
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Bhutanese ngultrum is at par with the Indian rupee
The 1994 CIA World Factbook
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For instance, Mr. Koda saw Mr. Blahnik's heelless "Bhutan" pump from spring/summer 2006 as a subtle homage to footwear designer Roger Vivier, as well as a nod to the "Lotus" shoe used in Chinese foot-binding.
Where Everyone's a Fashion Critic
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While Bhutan has no caste system, a pattern of discrimination against the minority Hindus of Nepalese origin exists.
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People have to have a voice that connects them to their community, says Hussien Mohamed, director of Sagal Radio Services, a non-profit group that since 1998 has provided weekly programs in Somali, Swahili, Amharic and Bhutanese-Nepali to Atlanta area stations.
Radio stations speak your language
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Stan Sesser The Punakha dzong, or district government headquarters, is one of Bhutan's most beautiful buildings.
The Road Through Bhutan
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Tucked away in the far north-east, wedged between the borders of Bhutan, Burma and Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh is India's newest and least-known state.
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France is not the first country to look at the non-material aspects of progress. The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan emphasizes a concept it calls 'gross national happiness, ' rather than GDP.
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Bhutan has only recently stepped gingerly onto the motorway of international life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sandwiched between the frozen Tibetan plateau to the north and the sweltering Indian valley of Assam to the south, Bhutan is slightly larger than Switzerland, but with a population of just under 700,000 and much bigger mountains (its tallest peak, Gangkhar Puensum, at 24,741 feet, is the highest unclimbed summit in the world).
Hidden Kingdom
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Bhutan is a small, landlocked country in the mountainous area north of India.
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The ngultrum is on par with the Indian Rupee (both the Nu and Indian Rupee can be used in Bhutan).
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This species is also sympatric with hanuman langurs in Bhutan, where the hanuman langurs, Semnopithecus entellus, were able to cross the Sankosh river because of the construction of a bridge.
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It was on the back of a tiger, in fact on the back of a pregnant tigress, that the great teacher of Buddhism first arrived in Bhutan in the 8th century.
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And I shudder to think of a world without the scrumptious Azerbaijani gopik, or worse yet without everyone's favorite - the Bhutanese ngultrum.
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Scientists were baffled by the DNA in so-called yeti hair discovered by a British expedition in Bhutan two years ago.
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According to sacred lore, most of Bhutan's gods were subdued by early Buddhist saints.
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Samayah sthanam matam; sa eva bhutani bhavati; sa eva tan dadhati.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The fugitives often saw flocks of burhel -- called _nao_ in Bhutan -- feeding on the precipitous slopes of the higher hills.
The Jungle Girl
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Bhutan's unit of currency is the ngultrum, which equals 100 chetrums.
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Held 2250 ft above sea-level in the lush, mountainous region of Thimpu, Bhutan, the match was a decidedly stripped-down affair.
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Tucked away in the far north-east, wedged between the borders of Bhutan, Burma and Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh is India's newest and least-known state.
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The Chimi Lhakhang monastery sits atop a knoll in the Punakha Chhu valley in western Bhutan, surrounded by terraced rice fields and clusters of chalet-like homes.
Hidden Kingdom
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Bhutanese women wear the kira, a woven dress that is fastened at each shoulder by silver buckles.
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Here the goods are either loaded on the backs of yaks or on mule caravans to send into Tibet or to Nepal and Bhutan to be forwarded to Tibet.
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They are the Dutch ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao), New Zealand, Switzerland, Singapore, Ireland, Cyprus, Dubai, Mauritius, Bhutan and Iceland.
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Walking along the ghats to the Bhutanatha temples brought one to two priceless images.
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Link: www. boeing.com In February 2003 a Boeing 737-700 Succesfully completed 11 test flights at Paro International Airport, Bhutan.
WN.com - Business News
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I could go on at some length, but I will only mention that a manat is equivalent to 100 gopik in Azerbaijan, that a ngultrum is 100 chetrums in Bhutan and that a ouguiya is worth 5 khoums in Mauritania.
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With an annual membership fee of 6,000 ngultrum, roughly $130, Bhutan's golfers are mostly limited to the upper echelons of society - government officials and diplomats, plus a few stray Japanese tourists.
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According to Buddhist scholars, the phallus is a cautionary symbol of the dangers of the male ego; for ordinary Bhutanese, it’s a talisman against evil spirits.
Hidden Kingdom
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The Punakha dzong, left, is one of Bhutan's most beautiful buildings.
The Road Through Bhutan
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Bhutan: ngultrum per US dollar - 46.540 (January 2001), 44.942
The 2001 CIA World Factbook
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Bhutanese Buddhists
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Aris, joins him in Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where he tutors royal family and heads Translation Department.
Aung San Suu Kyi - Biography
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While filming, she learned that Bhutanese monks performing religious ceremonies in people's homes often found their eyes straying to the television in the corner.
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To my own "frangine" who has just rung from the airport to say she is back home again after trekking for three weeks in the mountains of Bhutan and is on her way over to tell me of latest adventures, laughingly hinting that this was the hardest trek yet!
La frangine - French Word-A-Day
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A typical Bhutanese house, in the hills above Punakha.
The Road Through Bhutan
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Above the cabinet is my snake mask I bought in Bhutan, my ladies 'wig for those late nights clubbing, and a heavy-duty plastic skull my dad picked up in medical school.
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The word shamanic, being associated with pawo and nenjom, is likely to be misunderstood in Bhutan without a couple of examples.
Kuensel Newspaper
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So he heads to foreign lands, to study the mysteries of the criminal mind, and ends up in a Bhutanese prison.
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Of the five small kingdoms or princely states which the author explores in this fascinating Himalayan odyssey, only Nepal and Bhutan are fully independent nations.
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In Bhutan, cows and yaks graze, rice and wheat grow, and people live up and down terraced land that seems to kiss endless blue sky above and melt into pristine waters below.
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Kevin Frayer/Associated Press After the wedding, the King and Queen of Bhutan greeted the locals who had gathered in Punakha.
Bhutan's Royal Wedding
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By giving well-being a central role in policymaking, the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan has staged a trial that has gripped the world.
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In recent years Cambrian trilobites and brachiopods have been discovered in Bhutan, close to the eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya.
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And I shudder to think of a world without the scrumptious Azerbaijani gopik, or worse yet without everyone's favorite - the Bhutanese ngultrum.
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Another heroic figure of Bhutan is Shabdrung, the lama who assumed the title of Dharma Raja in the seventeenth century and laid the political foundations of Bhutan State.
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Traditional timber buildings in Bhutan are jointed together using no steel fasteners.
