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Usage examples of bhutan.

On the south from Burma to Kashmir, where the political border joins India, Bhutan and Nepal, there are still populations speaking Tibetan and following one or other of the Lamaist sects.

Here the goods included the coarse woollen cloth made in most Tibetan households, squares of silk from China, cheap printed material from India, maize and rice from Bhutan, spices, the usual home-grown vegetables, tea-bricks, ritual objects, coral, amber and agate necklaces, talisman boxes and tea-cups of polished birch and maple.

Its earlier pronunciation as the Indians recorded it is reflected in the Sanskrit Bhota, and the name of the modern state of Bhutan is related to the same word.

Although the existence of wall-paintings has been well known, adequate colour photographs are only now being published, principally of interiors in Ladakh and Bhutan outside political Tibet.

The wool is incredibly durable, and the colors made from bark from Bhutan, green nutshells, and vegetable juices, remain fresh for ages.

Tibet, and Bhutan, he had got to know the Dalai Lama on his flight to India.

Nepal was searched, as was Bhutan, Sikkim, and even both sides of the Di-Chu, Ghost River, on the border of Tibet and China.

The heavy wood door, carried on the backs of serfs from faraway Bhutan centuries ago, was closed.

First to Tibet, then to a valley in east Nepal or west Bhutan, a valley called Khembalung.

Once, in the mountains of Bhutan, she had stared for hours at a Buddhist monk who was squatting on the ground in meditation.

China to Bhutan, where it was further refined over a period of half a millennium at the Tenzin Torgangka monastery, one of the most isolated in the world.

The devastating avalanche in Bhutan was one I instigated twenty years ago.

Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and so on.

Sri Lanka, and spent time with a lama in Bhutan who insisted he could teach me how to levitate.

Buddhist country of Bhutan was briefly conquered by its neighbor, Bangladesh, for the purpose of becoming a leadership haven.